The Sea and the Coastline Battle Each Other, Atlantic Coast, Islay sold Antony’s work taught me that

Antony’s work taught me that technique and mastery is one thing but atmosphere is everything

uninterested in fame and long-term projects

I was delighted to find these two portraits tucked away in a country saleroom during the first lockdown for something of a steal

He was a Swiss artist who trained in Paris under the great academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Académie des Beaux-Arts

mostly selling for a few hundred here and there and I feel a certain poignancy that she is now remembered for these ordinary little pot boilers rather than the early oils that augured such a dazzling future

The Sea and the Coastline Battle Each Other, Atlantic Coast, Islay sold Antony’s work taught me that