Keeley (John, 1849-1930). Landscape views in Birmingham, circa 1916

Keeley (John, 1849-1930). Landscape views in Birmingham, surrounding areas and elsewhere, circa 1916, a collection of 37 fine watercolour studies of landscape on paper, some heightened with touches of white body colour, many depicting the changing conditions in weather and atmosphere, each signed to lower left or lower right corner, 140 x 160mm (61/4 x 51/2 ins) or similar, all mounted in a contemporary padded leather album, and each titled and numbered 1 to 37 in ink to mount, album covers somewhat worn with partial loss of leather, album size 27.5 x 24cm (11 x 91/2 ins)

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Provenance: A private collection, Cotswolds, UK.

John Keeley was an important member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, where he exhibited over 300 works, and a member of the Birmingham Art Circle.

The titles include: At Trent Vale, At Hall Green, Showry, At Yardley Wood, The Mill-pool, Trent Vale, In the Meadows, Evening, Tritterford Pool, The Edge of the Common, A Peat Marsh, A Staffordshire Farmhouse, On the Cole, Heralds of Night, Scissors to Grind, A Wet Road, etc. With handwritten label to inside front cover 'Thirty Seven Water-Colour Works by John Keeley 1916', and at rear of the volume a handwritten New Year's greetings card from L. & A. E. Keeley for 1922, with a mounted landscape watercolour by John Keeley. All watercolours are in excellent, fresh condition, as a result of being bound in the album.