338 Japonica – Henry Ryland – Edwardian Lithograph – Beautifully Framed – Circa 1900

This is a beautiful old lithograph, dating to Circa 1900 of Japonica by Henry Ryland. Beautifully framed in a reeded walnut, Gold Slip, Maroon mount and Gold inner frame. Henry Ryland was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer. He was the son of John Benjamin and Elizabeth Ryland and was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire in 1856. He studied in London at the South Kensington Art School, and at Heatherley’s. He also studied in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Lefebvre. Although he did paint in oils, he specialized in highly finished watercolour paintings containing images of young women in classical draperies on marble terraces. Subjects of this type were popularized by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore and J. W. Godward. Unlike Moore he rarely painted nudes.

Frame Dimensions Height 18″ (46cm) Width 13.75″ (35cm) €425