'Old Brighton' by Peter Cumming RBA (1916-1993)

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Object Description

Oil on board painting by Peter Cumming RBA (1916-1993)

Although very much a painting of its own time –the 1950s– at a glance, this could pass for a regency street scene amidst the elegance of the Brighton stucco. Peter Cumming was working as an illustrator at the time this was painted, and this period saw his finest work. It depicts the day-to-day interactions in a street in the Kemp Town area of Brighton. A classic British painting of what was then thought of as the ‘New Elizabethan Age’, with all the outward looking optimism that entailed.

Object History

Peter Cumming was born in west London in 1916. He trained at Hammersmith College of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Silver Medal for drawing. During the Second World War he served with the RAF and the Air Sea Rescue service in Malta, where he often drew portraits of his comrades in return for extra rations. Drawings from his sketchbooks, of life in besieged, wartime Malta, as well as a later oil painting of the rescue boat of which he was part of the crew, can be seen at the Imperial War Museum in Valetta. Following the war he worked as a freelance artist and illustrator before combining painting with teaching in 1950, when he became lecturer at the City of Oxford School of Art – exhibiting widely in Oxford and London, and receiving many private commissions. In 1960 he moved to Dorset, took up the post of lecturer at Bournemouth and Poole college of art. In 1979 he retired and moved with his family to Iwerne Minster in north Dorset, where he lived and painted until his death.

Object Literature

This painting has been shown at our exhibition ‘A Dealer´s Eye’ in March 2020. View e-catalogue here: https://ebooks.panterandhall.com/other/a-dealers-eye/

Object Condition

Good condition

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