26 9th June 2012 dealers’ dossier Double Seago dose with royal seal of approval


EDWARD Seago’s (1910-74) popularity apparently never wanes and it seems he remains as favoured by the Royal family as he is by the wider British public. It really began in 1947 when Seago painted the wedding procession of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip and in 1953 was invited by the Ministry of Works to record the Coronation.


Seago quickly became friends with the Queen and received twice-yearly invitations to Sandringham until his death. He was also an artistic mentor to Prince Philip, a keen amateur painter, and was invited to join him aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia in 1956 on its return from the Melbourne Olympics. The Duke of Edinburgh’s admiration continued after Seago’s death and in June 2010 he acquired a study by Seago for his portrait of the Queen for just under £10,000 at Christie’s, using a bidding agent. The study now hangs next to the finished portrait in the Duke’s study. So, to coincide with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, two London galleries with long associations with Seago have decided to mount special exhibitions of his work. Opening first is a show at the Richard


Green Gallery at 147 New Bond Street from June 13-July 7. “Edward Seago is one of the best


20th century British artists to adapt the Impressionist technique to the English landscape tradition” Richard Green told ATG, “I have been dealing in his work since 1973, since when I have sold over 750 paintings by him. The demand has been consistent throughout that time for the best signed works. My forthcoming Seago exhibition will be as good as any that I have ever held.” The Jubilee exhibition, the 15th solo show for Seago to be held at the gallery since 1981, includes 41 paintings, many taken from the collection that the Greens


have accumulated over the years. Seago lived at Ludham on the Norfolk


Broads and his East Anglian landscapes feature prominently in this exhibition, alongside views of Paris, northern France, Venice, and North Africa. Opening shortly after is the Portland


Gallery’s exhibition from June 22-July 27, a short distance away across Piccadilly at 8 Bennet Street in St James’s. Portland Gallery represent the artist’s estate and this is their fifth Seago show, featuring just over 70 works, including some loans from private collections


including the collection of the Duke of Edinburgh and The Coldstream Guards. The exhibition includes a number of works depicting the 1953 Coronation, the Royal Yacht Britannia, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, alongside Seago’s typical East Anglian, Parisian and Venetian scenes. Also on view will be two portraits painted aboard the Britannia in 1956 – one by Seago of Prince Philip at his easel and the other of Seago painted by the Prince in return.


Alongside these will be a painting of The Queen on Horseback at the Birthday


Eight Days in June ANTIQUE CERAMICS IN KENSINGTON


GARRY ATKINS 66c Kensington Church Street E&H Manners Gallery London W8 (*) Telephone 020 7727 8737 Mobile 07786 902 471 www.EnglishPottery.com


R & G McPHERSON ANTIQUES 40 Kensington Church Street London W8 4BX Telephone 020 7937 0812 Mobile 07515 806 230 www.OrientalCeramics.com


SIMON SPERO 3a Campden Street off Kensington Church Street London W8 7EP Telephone 020 7727 7413 Fax 020 7727 7414


RODERICK JELLICOE 66c Kensington Church Street E&H Manners Gallery London W8 (*) Telephone 020 7624 6471 Mobile 07775 580 051 www. EnglishPorcelain.com


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13th - 21st JUNE 2012 OPENING TIMES:


Wednesday 13th June 2pm - 8pm Weekdays 10am - 5pm Saturdays 10am - 4pm Sunday closed


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