Lot 48: Robert Cresswell Boak, A.R.C.A. (Irish, 1875-1949), A pair of hand colored etchings on paper

Robert Cresswell Boak, A.R.C.A. (Irish, 1875-1949), A pair of hand colored etchings on paper, the first titled "Derwentwater (The English Lakes)," image measures approx. 6.50 x 9.75 inches to the plate mark, overall in the frame 14.50 x 17 inches. The second is titled "Loch Katrins & Ellens Isle (The Scottish Lochs)," image measures approx. 7 x 9.50 inches to the plate mark, overall in the frame 14.50 x 17 inches. Each signed by the artist at lower right. CONDITION: Good, brightly colored, matting with stains and discoloration. Robert Cresswell Boak was a landscape/portrait painter and etcher born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. Robert was educated at the Londonderry School of Art and the Royal College of Art and then went off to Paris and Rome. He the turned to teaching art for a short well in Portsmouth and Southsea, Hampshire before making the decision to devote all of his time to his own work. Boak showed twenty-seven works at the Royal Cambrian Society as well as at the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 1927 he became a member of the Belfast Art Society. He then married Margaret Cooper who was an artist and a writer from Belfast. During his time in Belfast he produced a number of etchings of the province and historic buildings. In 1932, they left Belfast before the Second World War and settled in London where he died in 1949.

The first titled "Derwentwater (The English Lakes)," image measures approx. 6.50 x 9.75 inches to the plate mark, overall in the frame 14.50 x 17 inches. The second is titled "Loch Katrins & Ellens Isle (The Scottish Lochs)," image measures approx. 7 x 9.50 inches to the plate mark, overall in the frame 14.50 x 17 inches

etching

Good

Private Collection, West Virginia