"Mineralogy : Still Life Painting With Quartz (quartz / Crystal) Rare"
Oil painting on panel by Robert DUMONT SMITH. United Kingdom, circa 1930.
Signed lower right.
Period gilt stuccoed frame (some accidents visible on photo), under glass.
325 x 265 mm. approximately (frame dimensions).
Still life showing a sample of quartz from England on a wooden table, surrounded by ivy. Representations of minerals in painting, and even more so still lifes showing minerals or crystals, are very rare and particularly sought after by amateurs.
Dumont Smith is an English painter born in 1908 who exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists until 1939.
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