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Stanley Royle (1888-1961)
October Morning, Church
Oil on canvasboard, 30 x 40cm (11.8 x 15.75”)
A post-impressionist landscape painter born in Lancashire in 1888, Stanley Royle had a
successful career as both an artist and a teacher. In the 1930’s however, the Depression forced
him to emigrate to Canada where he took up teaching posts first in Nova Scotia and then in
New Brunswick. Returning to England in 1945, he spent the next decade travelling around
Ireland, Scotland, England and Brittany. Nottinghamshire was one of his favourite painting
locations in the early 1950s. Study for ‘
October Morning, Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire’
was
once in the collection of Royle’s only daughter Jean Royle, later Jean Copleston. This work
features in
Stanley Royle, Catalogue of his Works
by Timothy Dickson.
In Ireland Royle is best known as the artist responsible for the painting
The Goose Girl
which
was adopted by the National Gallery of Ireland as its logo in the mistaken belief that it was
painted by the Irish artist William John Leech. It wasn’t until his daughter, Jean Royle, sold
a similar painting,
Spring Morning amongst the Bluebells
in 1992, that
The Goose Girl,
which
features Royle’s sister-in-law, Frances Goulding, was correctly attributed to him.
€2,000 - 3,000