Oil painting by Kilburne

A fine quality oil painting on canvas.

Signed George Goodwin Kilburne and dated 1891.

Original gilt-wood frame, 32cm x 43cm

The oil painting on canvas 24cm x 36cm

George Goodwin Kilburne RI RBA 1839 – 1924.

RI – Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, formerly NWS

RBA – Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street: SS

London genre painter, watercolorists and engraver. Studied for five years with the Dalziel brothers, the engravers and illustrators. 1863 began to exhibit at The Royal Academy. Elected member of NWS 1866 Exhib. at RA, 1863 -1918, Society of British Artists, New Watercolour Society, Watercolour Society, Grosvenor Gallery 1877-90 founded in Bond Street London by Sir Coutts and Lady Lindsay, and elsewhere. Kilburne’s work is mostly genre set in seventeenth century costume. Many of his pictures became popular through prints. His work is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Sheffield Art Gallery. Kilburne also painted many charming scenes of Victorian life.

Bibl: Connoisseur 70 1914 p.58 (obit.); Wood.

# An illustrated work by him is in The Dictionary of Victorian Painters 2nd Edition by Christopher Wood