Robert GROVES

Robert Emanuel GROVES
also listed as E Robert Groves
1944

Addresses known for this artist are in Leicester (1887), Chelsea, London 1893, and St Albans, Herts (1895). He also travelled in North Africa and the Mediterranean, as witnessed by his landscape and coastal titles.

His titles include Off to the fishing grounds (signed and dated 1905). Another title is Off Fishing at Sennen Cove (1901) sold more recently (1992) at auction by Phillips. He is known to have exhibited in London from 1887, and exhibited 14 works at the RA, including two from the coasts of Iona.

media

Painter of marine works in watercolour

works and access

Access to work: Off to the fishing grounds (1905); Off fishing at Sennen Cove

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references

Benezit

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p328)

Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists

WH Lane Sales Catalogue (illustrated October sale 2002 No 130)

Wood (1995) Victorian Painters