FRANK LYNN JENKINS (1870-1927) AND GERALD MOIRA (1867-1959) §
ARTS & CRAFTS PAINTED PLASTER MURAL, CIRCA 1900
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860
Auction: 23 October 2019 at 11:00 BST
Description
painted in gilt and colours and sculpted in relief depicting a scene from Much Ado About Nothing, bearing inscription MUCH ADO/ ABOUT/ NOTHING/ SHAKESPEARE, later framed
Dimensions
74.5cm x 95cm
Footnote
Note: Frank Lynn Jenkins inherited his father's marble merchant business H.T. Jenkins and Son, and developed it into a business of international standing involved in the execution of work such as Thomas Brock's Queen Victoria Memorial in the Mall, the Whitehall Cenotaph and William Goscombe John's monument to the Marquis of Salisbury in Westminster Abbey, among many other prestigious commissions. With the painter and a fellow student, Gerald E. Moira he developed an innovative style of painted, low relief, plaster panels employed in a commission they won from the restaurateur Joe Lyons to decorate the entrance to the Trocadero Restaurant, Shaftsbury Avenue. This was followed by other similar schemes at the Throgmorton Restaurant, the Hotel Metropole, Folkestone, the Passmore Edwards Library, Shoreditch and a library in a private house in Beverley, North Yorkshire where the present lot was sited.