A signed watercolour by Ernest Yarrow-Jones depicting an almond tree in blossom against a sunlit Mediterranean landscape. The composition combines pale pink flowering branches with terraced hills, scattered buildings and distant high ground, creating a distinctly southern French atmosphere.
Details
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Artist: Ernest Yarrow-Jones (1872-1951)
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Title: Amandier
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Medium: Watercolour on paper
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Signature: Signed lower right
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Artwork size: 21 × 28 cm (8.3 × 11.0 in), height × width
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Framed size: 36 × 43 cm (14.2 × 16.9 in), height × width
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Presentation: Framed and mounted
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Provenance: Acquired from a family descendant.
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Condition: Artwork in very good vintage condition, with some signs of paper discolouration commensurate with age. Frames and mounts in very good condition.
Subject and Context
Amandier is French for almond tree, and the flowering tree dominates the foreground of this Mediterranean landscape. The surrounding architecture and dry, terraced hills are consistent with southern France. As this work was originally catalogued alongside Le Cap, Au bord de la forêt and Paysage, it was likely painted during the same French journey, probably in the Cassis area.
About the Artist
Ernest Yarrow-Jones (1872-1951) was a British painter, sculptor and illustrator. Born in Liverpool, he was educated at Liverpool College and Pembroke College, Oxford, before being called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. He subsequently turned from law to art, studying at the Westminster School of Art and Royal College of Art, followed by further training in Paris at the Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy and in Paris at the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants, and held solo exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries, Arlington Gallery and Macrae Gallery. He lived and worked for many years at Black Gable, Hythe, Kent, and also spent extended periods in Paris and travelled extensively in France and the Mediterranean.
His work is represented in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
