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RICHARD HAYLEY LEVER (Australian/ American 1876-1958)

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RICHARD HAYLEY LEVER (Australian/ American 1876-1958)
<B>RICHARD HAYLEY LEVER (Australian/ American 1876-1958)</B></I><BR>Brittany, France, 1905<BR>Oil on canvas<BR>board mounted on stretchers<BR>6.5in. x 9in.<BR>Signed bottom center: Hayley Lever<BR>Inscribed on verso: Hayley Lever/ Brittany $500.<BR>Inscribed on stretcher: Brittany 1905/ By/ Hayley Lever ROI-RBA-NA<BR>Provenance: Clayton Liberatore Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York<BR><BR>Richard Hayley Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia, where he began his artistic training at the Prince Alfred College. He later attended James Ashton's Academy of the Arts in Adelaide, where he was encouraged to paint out of doors. Around 1894, Lever moved to England, first settling and painting in London. By 1899 he moved to the ancient fishing town of St. Ives in Cornwall to study with the British marine painters Julius Olsson and Algernon Talmage, strong proponents of painting <I>en plein air.</B></I> He painted all around St. Ives and also made excursions throughout France. Lever immigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City where he had a prosperous painting career. He painted a number of scenes of Manhattan and later opened a studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts that he maintained for many years. Lever was a member of the National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, New Society of Artists, Royal British Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and the Royal West of England Academy. His works are displayed in art institutions throughout the country, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Detroit Institute of Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 25% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid. <BR><BR><B>IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT RESERVES:</B> Heritage now divulges all reserves on its web site 7 days before every auction. If you want to know whether the reserve on this lot has been met, and if not, what the reserve amount is, please visit this lot page on the HeritageCoin.com web site, or email: bid@HeritageGalleries.com </span></font>