Frank Saltfleet "The Cornfield, Evening" watercolour

Frank Saltfleet was a Yorkshire artist born in 1860. He was a protégé of John Ruskin and became President of the Sheffield Society of Artists, living in the Sheffield area all his life. His work is influenced by Harold Knight and J.R. Bagshaw and he exhibited locally and also at public and private galleries throughout the U.K. including many works at the Fine Art Society and the Royal Institute. Saltfleet painted landscape and marine subjects and he was a frequent summer visitor to Staithes where he painted along the Yorkshire coast. He died in 1937 at the age of 77.

"The Cornfield, Evening" is a watercolour measuring 6"x 9". It is signed lower left and is dated (18)84. It is mountad giving an overall size of 11"x 14". It is unframed.