Lincoln-born George F. Carline, portrait and landscape artist, worked in both watercolour and oils. He studied at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in London and in Antwerp and Paris. He later exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institution. In 1896, an exhibition of 59 of his paintings titled ‘The Home of our English Wild Flowers’ was held at the Dowdeswell Galleries in London. Carline died in Assisi, Italy, in 1920. All three of his children were also artists. Notably, his son Richard, who was a landscape and figure painter and served as an official war artist during World War I, in Palestine, Persia and India. His daughter, Hilda, is best remembered as the first wife of painter Stanley Spencer, whom she married in 1925.

Places

England, London, Hampstead Heath, Parliament Hill

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, grass, tree, woodland, spire, dome, chimney

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

George F Carline (1855 - 1920)

Title

London from Parliament Hill, Hampstead

Date

1918

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 100.00 cm, width: 125.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Richard Carline, September 1979

Inscription

signed & dated br; verso: London from Parliament Hill Hampstead / George Carline 1918

GAC number

14826