CHARLES JOHN DE LACEY – OIL PAINTING – RUNNING IN TO HARBOUR

CHARLES JOHN DE LACEY

Fluctuated 1878 – 1915

‘Running in to Harbour’

Oil painting on canvas
Signed and dated 1889
Frame size: 13 x 17 inches / 33 x 43.2 cm
Stock number: PB001/APR18
Price: £1675

Charles John De Lacey was a landscape, coastal and naval portrait painter and black and white artist. He was the special press artist and correspondent to the ‘Illustrated London News’. Also artist to the Admiralty and Port of London Authority. He chose subjects and compositions similar to those of W. L. Wyllie, indeed his style was not dissimilar to that artist’s. He exhibited 4 pictures at the Royal Academy, 14 at the Suffolk Street Galleries, 4 in Liverpool and 2 in Manchester.