Lot #11: Large Artist Signed Richard Cheales 1975 South African Marine Landscape Watercolour 37"

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Richard Cheales was perhaps South Africa's best Twentieth Century water color painter.Richard ChealesRichard Cheales 1994Richard was renowned for his seascapes which he painted on the South Coast of Natal and in Durban. He would often paint, rapidly, many paintings, capturing the changing light in the first and final minutes of a day. He would layout the many "washes of colour" and return home to his mother's house when they were dry. Back in his studio/flat in Johannesburg, he would complete the paintings and then mount and frame them himself.Richard Cheales, born 1920 died 1996, was the younger brother of HWA Cheales, decorated WW2 veteran and farmer. The two boys and Edith McEvilly were children of British Army Captain, ERS Cheales and Maude Winifred Cheales. The family's eldest child, Humphrey, was killed riding a motor cycle, whilst at work as a traffic policeman, in Johannesburg before WW2