Oil on Board, 18 1/4" x 22", signed lower left "Bernard Gribble". With 3" finished-corner gold frame.


LOT NOTES:
Bernard Finegan Gribble, although a highly active member of Poole's flourishing artistic community for much of his long life, was a native of London. Born in 1872, he was the son of the architect, Herbert Gribble, best known as the designer of the Brompton Oratory. The younger Gribble was equipped to follow in his father's footsteps, proving himself to be a fine draughtsman with work that included architectural drawings for the facade of the Brompton Oratory. However, he also had a growing reputation as a talented painter of oils and watercolours, having honed his brush skills at the South Kensington Art School.
Both Gribble and Percy Wise were leading members of the Poole and East Dorset Art Society and the former was its founding chairman in 1924. This was no ordinary local art club, for its membership list also boasted such illustrious names as Augustus John and Henry Lamb, both of whom lived in the borough and contributed work to the society's prestigious annual exhibition.
As an artist, Gribble was both prolific and versatile. He was in demand as an illustrator and his work appeared in many leading magazines, including "The Illustrated London News" and "The Graphic", in many books, most notably Arthur Conan Doyle's "Captain Starkey", and even on postcards and chocolate boxes. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon and his paintings were widely sought.
Roosevelt was one of many celebrity owners of Gribble paintings. Others have included Queen Mary, The German Kaiser and the late Jackie Onassis, widow of President John F Kennedy. The Kaiser was so impressed by his work that King George V summoned the artist to a royal residence to meet him.

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