ARTIST: Noel Harry Lever (British, European, United Kingdom,Africa, 1889 - 1951)
NAME: Town Tower of Baden, Switzerland
MEDIUM: watercolor on cardboard
CONDITION: Excellent.
SIGHT SIZE: 16 x 11 inches / 40 x 28 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed
SIGNATURE: Lower left
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CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 115787
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Noel Harry Leaver (British, English, European, United Kingdom, 1889 - 1951)
Noel Harry Leaver was born at the School House in Austwick, a North Yorkshire village near Settle, on 23 March 1889 where his father Peter was a teacher. In May of the same year the family moved back to a village near Burnley. Noel was christened at Worthorne Parish Church, which has a long connection with the Leaver family.
Noel was educated at St James’s School, Burnley where his father Peter was the Headmaster. He stayed there until 1902 and then attended the Burnley School of Art, which he entered at the age of thirteen. He became a general craftsman and Art Master at the Halifax School of Art and was awarded Royal College of Art (travelling studentship) 1911 and Royal Institute of British Architects in 1912. He was one of the youngest ever pupils of the Royal College of Art, where he began studies at age sixteen.
Primarily a watercolourist, he was known for hot blue skies, often in contrast with shadowed buildings drawn from experience gained during his travels in Europe and North Africa. Leaver was also known for his paintings of English cathedrals.
He also taught at the Halifax School of Art (1912–15) and then the Burnley School of Art until the mid-1930s.
Sixty-one Noel Leaver watercolours were left to Towneley Hall by the late Dr Peter Bracewell.
Leaver exhibited widely during his own lifetime and his paintings of British, European and Middle Eastern subjects are popular with collectors. His work is notable for the hot blue skies, which often contrast with shadowed buildings.