FINE JEWELLERY, WATCHES, SILVER & COINS 11th December 2024 at 12pm

10 LIVE AUCTION OF FINE JEWELLERY, WATCHES, SILVER & COINS • WEDNESDAY, 11th DECEMBER 2024 AT 12PM S P O T L I G H T O N A R T I S T John Anthony Park R O I , R B A ( 1 8 7 8 - 1 9 6 2 ) A N D P A I N T I N G E N P L E I N - A I R John Anthony Park was an oil painter active in the early 20th century, predominantly in the Cornish seaside town of St. Ives. Park mainly worked on scenes that were inspired by his surroundings - seascapes, harbours, and general maritime subject matter. An impressionist painter with the brushstrokes in his works likening to those by Monet and colours reminiscent of Renoir and Manet - Park puts a spin on this style that slightly differs to his contemporaries on the continent. Like many impressionist painters, Park enjoyed painting en plein-air, painting outdoors and immersing himself in the surroundings which he captured on his canvas. Painting en plein-air rose in popularity in the 19th and early 20th centuries after French ar tists Daubigny and Rousseau decided to go against the tradition of studio painting while studying at the Barbizon School and took to painting in nature - following the light and weather conditions as accurately as possible while painting. Traditionally, ar tists painted indoors in their studios as paints were not por table due to the necessity of ar tists to mix them themselves from raw pigment which had to be self-ground. This was quite a messy process and not convenient for working on the go. However, in 1841 American ar tist John Goffe Grand