British Canvas, Stretcher and Panel Suppliers' Marks. Part 6, O to Y
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British canvas, stretcher and panel suppliers’ marks. Part 6, O to Y This resource surveys suppliers’ marks and labels on the reverse of picture supports. This part is devoted to London suppliers, O to Y, active between the 1830s and the 1930s. Arranged alphabetically by supplier: Thomas Ordish, Charles Pearson, Pinnick Brothers, H.J. Pursey, Robert Rawcliffe, Arthur Rayner, John Reeves, T.C. Riordan, Leonard Sanders, Patrick Shea, John Sherborn/Sherborn & Co/Sherborn & Tillyer, J.H. Simpson, Charles Smith, J.B. Smith/John Bryce Smith Ltd, W.A. Smith, Alexander Spicker, James Tillyer, William Urquhart, Aug. Walker, Waring & Dimes, C.H. West, J.E. Williams, Cecil Wood/Wood & Co, Percy Young and Young & Marten. For information on individual suppliers, see British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 on this website. Measurements of marks, given where known, are approximate and may vary according to the stretching or later conservation treatment of a canvas or the trimming of a label. Links are given to institutional websites where dimensions of works can be found. Dates for businesses, partnerships and addresses are usually accurate to within a year. Square brackets are used to indicate indistinct or missing lettering in transcripts, with readings sometimes based on other examples. Compiled by Jacob Simon, September 2017, updated February 2020, and based on the pioneering work of Cathy Proudlove and the suppliers’ database created by Jacob Simon. With thanks to Dr Joyce Townsend for providing information on paintings in Tate, to Nicola Costaras at the Victoria and Albert Museum and to John Payne, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Supplier, work details Supplier dates, mark transcripts Product marks (not to uniform scale) Thomas Ordish At 56 Brompton Row 1854-62 See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - O Illustrated: Stencil, 10.2 cm wide, oval, on canvas: James Webb, Simon’s Bath (Sotheby’s T. ORDISH Belgravia, 28 January --- 1975, lot 159) MANUFACTURER, ~~ CORNER OF ~~ BROMPTON SQUARE LONDON Charles Pearson In business 1860-94 See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - P Illustrated: Stencil, oval format, on canvas and stretcher: Sketch drawing made in 1973: J.B. Burgess, An Artist's Almsgiving, 1886 C. PEARSON (Reading City Museum) ARTISTS COLOURMAN 17 QUEENS TERRACE ST JOHNS WOOD [at 17 Queens Terrace 1886-94] Supplier, work details Supplier dates, mark transcripts Product marks (not to uniform scale) Illustrated (top): Stencil, 16 cm wide, on canvas: Source: Ann Ralls, diploma thesis on canvas CHAS. PEARSON stamps, University 17 QUEENS TERRACE College, London, 1995. ST. JOHNS WOOD N.W. Also found on: Alice Havers, 'But Mary kept [at 17 Queens Terrace 1886-94] all these things and pondered them in her heart', 1888 (Norwich Castle Museum) ^ thesis Illustrated (bottom): Unknown artist, The Canova Monument at Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (with Daxer & Marschall, Munich, Sept. 2014) ^ Unknown artist (stencil partly obscured by stretcher) Pinnick Brothers In business 1857 See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - P Illustrated: Stencil, 10.1 cm wide, on canvas: Source: Cobbe coll., see note 2. PINNICK BRO[s] ARTISTS COLORME[N] Carv[er]s, Gilder[s] AND FRAME MAKERS High Street CAMDEN TOWN James Poole In business 1785-1801 See Part 1, 1785-1831 of this guide See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - P Herbert John Pursey At this address 1906-35 See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - P Illustrated: Stamp, indistinct, on canvas: Lucien Pissarro, Ivy Cottage, Coldharbour: H. J. PURSEY, Sun and Snow, 1916 [PICTURE FRAME MAKER] & ARTISTS’ [COLOUR...] (Tate) 152, SHEPHERDS BUSH ROAD, HAMMERSMITH, W. Supplier, work details Supplier dates, mark transcripts Product marks (not to uniform scale) Robert Rawcliffe At this address 1844-52 See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - R Illustrated: Stencil, 13.0 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Joseph Wolf, Woodcock and Young Robin RAWCLIFFE (Sotheby’s Belgravia, MANUFACTURING unspecified sale), source: ARTISTS COLOURMAN Cobbe coll., see note 2. 26, Charlotte Street [FITZROY] PLACE LONDON Arthur Rayner At 35-36 Chenies Mews c.1873-75, 32 Francis St c.1874-77, 26 Francis St 1878-92 See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - R Illustrated: Stencil on canvas: Unknown artist, Seascape with sailing Prepared By ship offshore (Private --- coll., June 2019) A. RAYNER. --- 35 & 36, Chenies Mews TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD ----- Illustrated: Stencil, 10 cm wide, largely oval format, on Abraham Hulk junr, canvas: Rustic Cottages (Sotheby's Belgravia, 25 PREPARED BY, November 1975, lot A. RAYNER. 200?) --- 32. FRANCIS ST --- Tottenham Court Road Illustrated: Stencil, largely oval format, on canvas: Unknown artist, Undescribed subject Prepared by (Private coll., August A. RAYNER. 2019) 26 FRANCIS ST. Tottenham Ct Road Supplier, work details Supplier dates, mark transcripts Product marks (not to uniform scale) John Reeves senr In business 1841-55 Followed by his wife, Ann, and son, John. See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - R Not to be confused with Reeves & Sons. Illustrated (top): Stencil, 11.3 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Ford Madox Brown, Lear and Cordelia, 1848-9 J. REEVES. (Tate), see note 4. ARTISTS [CA]NVAS PRIMER 98 JOHN STREET Also found on: TOTTENHAM COURT R[D] John Frederick Pasmore, Highland Rams Fighting, [at 98 John St 1848-55] c.1850 (Victoria and Albert Museum) ^ Brown Illustrated (bottom): ‘Kirkby’, unspecified work, 1848 (Private coll.), source: Cobbe coll., see note 2. ^ Kirkby Illustrated: Stencil, 12.2 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Ford Madox Brown, Jesus Washing Peter’s JOHN REEVES. Feet, watercolour on 98 JOHN STT. paper stretched over TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD canvas, 1857-8 (Tate) [at 98 John St 1848-55] Illustrated: Stencil, 11.8 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Source: Cobbe coll., see note 2. JOHN REEVES --- ARTISTS COLORMAN 2 & 98 JOHN ST --- TOTTENHAM CT ROAD LONDON W [‘2’ above and to right of ‘T’ of TOTTENHAM] [at 2 & 98 John St 1851-55] Supplier, work details Supplier dates, mark transcripts Product marks (not to uniform scale) Illustrated: Stencil, 10 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Joseph Thors, Snipe Shooting (Sotheby’s JOHN REEVES Belgravia, 20 May 1975, --- lot 130) ARTISTS COLORMAN 2 & 98 JOHN ST --- TOTTENHAM CT ROAD LONDON W [‘2’ above and to left of ‘T’ of TOTTENHAM] [at 2 & 98 John St 1851-55] Illustrated: Stencil, 10.4 cm wide, on canvas: James Danby, Sunset on the Dutch Coast JOHN REEVES (Sotheby’s Belgravia, 11 ARTISTS COLORMAN November 1975, lot 12) 2. JOHN ST. TOTTENHAM COURT RD. [at 2 John St 1851-56] Illustrated: Stencil on canvas: Unkown artist, Portrait of Joseph Shepherd JOHN REEVES. (d.1862) (Private coll., ARTISTS COLORMAN Australia, 2010, image 2. JOHN ST courtesy John Payne) TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD [at 2 John St 1851-56] John Reeves junr In business 1870-80 Successor to his mother, Ann Reeves See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - R Illustrated: Stencil, 14.1 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Unspecified work, 1870, source: Cobbe coll., see JOHN REEVES note 2. --- ARTISTS COLORMAN 6. WHITFIELD ST Late John St --- TOTTENHAM CT ROAD. LONDON W [at 6 Whitfield St 1870-80] Illustrated: Stencil, 14.0 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Alfred Joseph Woolmer, A Wooded Landscape, JOHN REEVES 1873 (Christie’s, 25 April --- 1975, lot 137) ARTISTS COLORMAN. 6. WHITFIELD ST Late John St --- TOTTENHAM CT ROAD LONDON. W. [at 6 Whitfield St 1870-80] Supplier, work details Supplier dates, mark transcripts Product marks (not to uniform scale) Illustrated: Stencil, 11.7 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Source: Cobbe coll., see note 2. JOHN REEVES --- ARTISTS COLORMAN 6 WHITFIELD St --- TOTTENHAM CT. ROAD LONDON W [‘6’ below ‘R’ of ARTISTS] [at 6 Whitfield St 1870-80] Illustrated: Stencil, oval format, on canvas: Source: ‘19th Century Prepared Artists’ Canvas JOHN REEVES based on research by ARTISTS COLORMAN Cathy Leach’, Antique 6.WHITFIELD ST. Finder, May 1973, p.33. TOTTENHAM CT. ROAD LONDON [‘6’ below ‘A’ of ARTISTS] [at 6 Whitfield St 1870-80] Reeves & Sons In business as Reeves & Sons from 1830 See Part 7, Reeves & Sons of this guide See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - R Not to be confused with John Reeves (above) Thomas Courtney In business 1851-67 Riordan See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - R Illustrated: Stamp on canvas: Unspecified portrait (Private coll., 2011) PREPARED BY T. C. RIORDAN. 28 UPPER KING ST. BLOOMSBURY SQUARE & 5 PLEASANT ROW PENTONVILLE [at these addresses 1856-57] Charles Roberson, In business as Charles Roberson from 1819 See Part 8, Roberson & Co of this guide Charles Roberson & Co See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - R Rowney & Forster, George In business as Rowney & Forster from 1815 See Part 9, Rowney & Co of this guide Rowney & Co See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - R Supplier, work details Supplier dates, mark transcripts Product marks (not to uniform scale) Leonard Sanders In business 1912-15 See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - S Illustrated: Stamp on canvas: C.R.W. Nevinson, The Strafing, 1916 (Ivor Braka LEONARD SANDERS Ltd, 1999) ARTISTS DEPÔT [PREPARE]D? CANVAS? Also found on: 1[4? CIRCUS?] ROAD J.W. Waterhouse, The ST JO[HN'S W]OOD, N.W. Enchanted Garden, exh.1917 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight) Patrick Shea In business from 1871; moved several times See British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950 - S Illustrated: Stencil, 8.4 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Edwin H. Boddington, Wooded River Landscape P. SHEA. (Christie’s, 13 February ARTISTS 1976, lot 113) COLORMAN 21. WARREN ST Tottenham Ct Rd LONDON [first at 21 Warren St 1871-74] Illustrated: Stencil, 13.2 cm wide, on canvas: Source: Cobbe coll., see note 2. P. SHEA ARTISTS COLORMAN. 21, WARREN ST., Tottenham Ct. Road LONDON. W [first at 21 Warren St 1871-74] Illustrated: Stencil, 10.7 cm wide, oval format, on canvas: Frederick William Hulme, A Rocky Wooded River -- P SHEA -- Landscape, 1876 ARTISTS COLORMAN (Christie's, 25 April 1975, --127-- lot 79) WHITFIELD ST LATE OF Also found on: Warren Street Frank E.