Tristram's Death Bed" by Harry R Mileham FRSA

This painting has been wrongly attributed to Ms Stokes by Christopher Wood who admitted to have "miss guessed" the monogram signature. Robert Mileham

Stirring The Christmas Pudding Harry R Mileham

A very Happy Christmas and New Year to all my e friends.

This little oil sketch features my father and his two older siblings. Where this picture is and who owns I do not know. There are wood cut versions too but this one does not look as if it has been finished; painted by my grandfather Harry R Mileham FRSA about a hundred years ago to the day! My aunt can be seen dropping a silver sixpence in and my uncle about to taste a bit of the raw mixture!

CHARLES DICKENS 200 Pickwick

To celebrate Dickens' 200th birthday here is my Grandfather's painting of "Pickwick, Christmas at Dingley Dell" painted in 1926.

Tempera Harry R Mileham

Swallows

Tempera, when oil was ‘invented’

I have posted up a couple of images for you. The first, Vintage Harvest is from the 1995 100th anniversary exhibition brochure held at Leighton House in London. It was a sketch submitted for a competition for a decoration in a public building in 1894 whilst Harry R Mileham was at the Royal Academy Schools.

The other three pictures are of a painting discovered recently behind a portrait of my grandmother. The scruffy frame was to be cleaned up! It is just an intelligent guess that this is part of the same project and includes a ‘blank’ fireplace which suggests that this was a mural design.

I love the texture of tempera, it has perhaps a less vibrant look but often a pastel feel is attractive in its own right. With limited time and equipment I have tried to match the colours to the original.

They are only ‘snap shots’ as we are to do an exhibition in Brighton where he lived for the second half of his life, in September. Better pictures and a full brochure will be available on line for that.

I hope to be better informed by then!

He died in 1957 so all his works are still in copyright.

Perhaps influenced by Leighton just a little! (oil)

Thank you to Christies for this last picture

Harry R Mileham Painting

Bob Speel mentioned this painting by Harry R Mileham on his website, so here is an image of it, see also a post about St Peter Mancroft here
http://dorsetsculpture.blogspot.com/search/label/Sir%20Thomas%20Browne

There is to be an exhibition of Harry’s paintings in Brighton later this year, details to follow.

Bob Speel’s Victorian Art site can be found here http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/index.htm