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Charles Edward Brittan Snr. was born in Truro in 1837, the year Queen Victoria came to the throne. He later moved to Plymouth where his son, of the same name, was born in 1870. The father worked mostly in water-colour and painted a great variety of animals and birds, with the occasional landscape or river view. He exhibited a watercolour in Suffolk Street, London, while living and working in Truro, in 1858, titled ‘The Antlered Monarch of the Waste’ No. 905 and priced at 10 guineas.

His son, Charles Edward Brittan Jnr., 1870-1949, studied under his father but his ability to paint animals was more limited and he restricted his painting of them to a relatively small scale in his landscapes. He worked in watercolour and painted many moorland and coastal scenes, while living near Princetown on Dartmoor. He was a prolific artist and is therefore better known than his father, whose works seldom seem to appear on the open market these days.

Heron & Mallard

By: Charles Edward Brittan
1837-1888
Picture size: 8.5" x 6.25"
(21cms x 16cms)
Medium: Watercolour
Signed & Framed
Price: £150