Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House Weekend on 13 & 14 January 2024. If you've never been to an Open House before, it is the best place to view Henry's collection. A large selection of works will be displayed over two floors within Henry’s own period home. We hope you'll be able to make it. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend.
Below is a small selection of works that will be on show during the weekend. If you are unable to attend, or would like information about any of the works here or on the website, do not hesitate to get in contact with Henry.
Ian Rank-Broadley, (British b.1952), Taking Shirt Off, 1998, bronze, numbered 5/10, 53cm x 17cm x 23cm (incl. base), £8,000
Ian Rank-Broadley is one of the foremost sculptors working today. His effigy of the late Queen Elizabeth II appears on all UK and Commonwealth coinage from 1998. He has numerous other public works, including at the Armed Forces Memorial. Most recently, he created from life portraits of King Charles and the Queen Consort.
Marcel Delmotte, (Belgium 1901-1984), The Fall of Icarus, gouache on paper, signed (lower left) and titled (lower right), 88cm x 68cm, (108cm x 88cm framed), £4,000
A realist painter at first, Delmotte was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century, before turning to the symbolic style and developing his great compositions with mysterious landscapes and futuristic architectures. Here he has drawn on Greek mythology, but painted the scene in his own unique style.
Arthur John Elsley, (British 1860-1952), Academic Study, 1878, charcoal on paper, signed (verso), and signed and dated ‘20th July 1878’, by R.A invigilator, E.B. Stephen A.R.A. (bottom left), 73cm x 46cm, (88cm x 60cm framed), £2,250
Elsley was an English painter of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, famous for his idyllic genre scenes of playful children and their pets. He achieved great popularity during his life and much of his work appeared in calendars, magazines and books.
Edward Lucie-Smith, (British b.1933), Footballer - Foro Italia, 1998, C-Print, signed, titled and edition ‘3/15’ (recto), and certificate of authenticity (verso), 37cm x 56cm (image size), (59cm x 75cm framed), £1,250. (Provenance: in the collection of the artist Michael Leonard (British 1933-2023) until his death in 2023. The work had been given to him by Lucie-Smith.)
Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and photographer. He has been highly prolific in these fields, writing or editing over a hundred books, his subjects gradually shifting around the late 1960s from mostly literature to mostly art.
Harold Frederick Abbott, (Australian 1906-1986), Model in a Studio, c.1950s, oil on canvas, signed (lower left), 59cm x 49cm (72cm x 62cm framed), £7,500
An Australian artist, who studied at the Royal Academy in London in the 1930s, Abbott became highly accomplished in portraiture, still life, and genre paintings. After enlisting in the army during WWII, in 1943 he was appointed an official war artist. After the war, he dedicated himself to teaching at the National Art School in Sydney, where he later became the head and State Supervisor of Art. The style and composition of the painting, suggests it was painted in the 1950s; by the late 1960s Abbott abandoned narrative and figurative works in favour of bold abstract compositions. His work is in the collections of National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as various regional art galleries across Australia.