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Gallery

Selected paintings from the Fletcher Collection and descriptions of missing paintings

Title: Grange in Borrowdale

Date: not known

Medium: watercolour

Size: 8 x 5.5 in  signed: W FLETCHER

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: painting showing the double span bridge over the River Derwent.

Title: Storm over West Pier Whitehaven

Date: not known

Medium: not known

signed: not known

Location: not known

Title: Wasdale

Date: pre-1970

Medium: oil on board

Signed: W.Fletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes:  Painting has sustained some water damage

Title: Snow with Pine Trees

Date: not known

Medium: watercolour

Signed: WFletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: location for this paining is unknown

Title: Sand Dunes, Drigg

Date: 1952

Medium: watercolour

Signed: W.Fletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: previously owned by O D Pask

Title: Alderley Edge, Cheshire

Date: circa 1962

Medium: oil on board

Signed: WFletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: previously owned by O D Pask

Title: Wastwater

Date: not known

Medium: watercolour

Signed: WFletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Title: August Bridge Dresden 1935

Date:  Medium: watercolour

signed: W.Fletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: painted some time after cycling to Dresden in  1935

Title: Wastwater in snow

Date: not known

Medium: watercolour

Signed: unsigned

Location: Fletcher Collection

Title: Buttermere from Fleetwith Pike

Date: not known

Medium: Watercolour Size: 20 x 14 in

Signed:  W.Fletcher

Location: not known

Notes: sold at Auction 06 Aug 2016 lot 2156 Nigel Ward & Company 

Title: Fishgarth,  Ravensglass

Date: not known

Medium: watercolour

Size: 28.5 x 18.5 in

Signed: WFletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: Fishgarth set in the estuary near Ravensglass.

Title: Steam and Sail

Date: pre -1973

Medium: oil on canvas

Signed:  Location: not known

Notes: exhibited at Lowes Court Gallery 1973 (Sold)

Title: Loch Hourn

Date: pre -1973

Medium: watercolour

Signed:  Location: not known Notes: exhibited at Lowes Court Gallery 1973  

Title: Blengdale, Gosforth

Date: pre -1973

Medium: watercolour

Signed: not known

Location: not known

Notes: exhibited at Lowes Court Gallery 1973 (Sold)

Title: Pillar NW face

Date: pre -1973

Medium: watercolour

Signed: not known

Location: not known

Notes: exhibited at Lowes Court Gallery 1973 (Sold)

Title: Coniston Fells in snow

Date: circa 1980

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 20 in

Signed: W.Fletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: previously owned by L M Fletcher

Title: From Mickeldor, Scawfell Pike

Date: not known

Medium: watercolour

Size: 26 x 18.5 in 

Signed: W.Fletcher

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: older naming of the Scawfell as Scawfell pike, exhibition label on back (no date)

Title: The Screes

Date: pre-1960

Medium: watercolour

Signed: unsigned

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: previously owned by M J Pask. The painting has some foxing

Title: Steam and Sail 

Date: not known

Medium: watercolour

Signed: unsigned

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes:  possible study for an oil painting which was exhibited and sold at Lowes Court Gallery in 1973

Title: Rannoch Moor in Winter

Date: pre -1973

Medium: watercolour

Signed: not known

Location: not known

Notes: exhibited at Lowes Court Gallery 1973 (Sold)

Title: Summer Islands Scotland

Date: pre- 1970

Medium: watercolour

Signed: not known

Location: not known

Title: HMS Royal Sovereign after Trafalgar

Date: not known

Medium: watercolour

Size: 18.5 x 13 in 

signed: unsigned

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: the painting shows the badly damaged ship being towed by HMS Neptune 

Title: "The Blue Works" at Backbarrow 

Date: not known

Medium: gouache on sugar paper

signed: unsigned

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: possibly a sketch for an oil painting

Title: RMS Mauritania

Date: circa 1920

Medium: gouache

signed: unsigned

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: the design of the painting is influenced by Cunard posters of the transatlantic liners.

Title: Southern Downs

Date: pre-1970

Medium: watercolour

Signed: unsigned

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: previously owned by E Pask

Title: West Pier Lighthouse Whitehaven

Date: 1931

Medium: watercolour and gouache

Signed: wf 1931

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: Iconic West Pier Lighthouse painted when Bill was 24

Title: Keel Beach Achill Islands

Date: pre- 1970

Medium: watercolour

signed: not known

Location: not known

Title: "The King Drinks"

Date: 1921

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 8 x 6 in 

signed: unsigned

Location: Fletcher Collection

Notes: painted when Bill was 14 years old, based on a painting with the same title by Briton Riviere RA

Title: White fang Himalayas

Date: pre- 1970

Medium: oil

Signed: not known

Location: not known

Notes: "painted from photograph take by Scottish climber"

Title: Ennerdale from Kirk Fell

Date: not known

Medium: Watercolour

Signed:  not known

Location: Copeland district council museum store

Notes: ref. CC 19 in museum store catalogue

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