Showrooms

"Still Life with Grapes and Peaches"

Description
Very nicely executed original still life oil painting on fiberboard by the Wales born artist, Edward Pritchard. Signed lower left. Circa 1915. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in its original period frame. Overall measurements are 12.75 by 16 inches. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida collector.

Edward Pritchard was born in December 1864 in Wales, and came to the US around 1871. He married an Irish immigrant named Helen (maiden name unknown) in 1886. Helen bore a daughter, Ethel, in 1887. In 1900, the family lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey. By 1910 they were living in Orange, New Jersey. By 1920, the family, including the already widowed daughter Ethel, lived in Brooklyn, and still lived at that address in 1930, where Pritchard continued to be active as an artist. Edward Pritchard died sometime in the 1930s; the exact date of death is not known.