22. Edward Bouverie Hoyton
(1900-1988)

Wroxton Down

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Hoyton, Wroxton Down

Wroxton Down

Etching, ca. 1928, 125 x 183 mm. Very fine impression on laid paper with full margins, signed in pencil from an edition of 75. Hoyton (or Bouverie-Hoyton; no one seems quite sure) studied etching with Malcolm Osborne and Stanley Anderson, but he is clearly in the British Pastoral tradition of etching stemming from Palmer and Calvert and whose latest representatives, apart from Hoyton himself, were Griggs and the early Graham Sutherland. There is, in all of these, both a certain idealization of landscape and, technically, an almost pointillist effect of light which seem to glisten from all parts of the composition. It is a very attractive style. We have other works by this artist.