Comments on: Harold & Walter Steggles, Artists

By: Sandra Murphy

Sandra Murphy — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:53:34 +0000

Visited the Nunnery Gallery this morning as my friend had been and thought I would like it. Having been born in London I had to go and loved the artwork there, new and old. Am now on my phone looking up all the artists and their works and their lives. So interesting. Would love to own any of those paintings, so atmospheric.

By: Nicholas Harrison

Nicholas Harrison — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 22:17:15 +0000

I have just visited the Nunnery Gallery’s exhibition In The Footsteps of the East London Group, and have become smitten by the work of the Steggles brothers. After several laps of the gallery I realised that the palette and texture of a number of Walter’s paintings reminded me of something. And then it clicked, so I looked up the painting in question on my phone and held it next to Bow Bridge, and was amazed at how similar the palette was, and the effect created. That painting was Paris Street: Rainy Day (1877) byGustave Caillebotte. Seeing the paintings today was such a joy to see the work of men and women who had to paint, to express the world that they knew. I’m still glowing, and have the catalogue and my photos to keep the memory of these paintings above for me.

By: Alistair Steggles

Alistair Steggles — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:42:09 +0000

I have three early works by my family member Harold Steggles two fox and hound water colours and 1 fine pencil sketch

By: Mary Millner

Mary Millner — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:41:43 +0000

Hello, I inherited a small oil painting of a street corner by Harold Steggles. It belonged to my father b.1906. I would love to identify the street and learn more about the artists. It is now in our son’s house in Mile End and we hope it depicts East London.
Mary
marymillner.com

By: Brian Bahr

Brian Bahr — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 01:03:29 +0000

I have Harold walter painting number 5458576 called at the beach

By: Jim McDermott

Jim McDermott — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:10:47 +0000

Harold’s paintings remind me strongly of early Magritte; Walter’s are wonderfully atmospheric – I love the Bryant & May Wharf.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:42:31 +0000

Marvellous. What a family!

By: Paul Ridgway

Paul Ridgway — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:20:48 +0000

Excellent article and fine illustrations.

By: Molly Porter

Molly Porter — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:36:57 +0000

In the 21 July ’17 edition of the Islington Tribune there is an illustrated page short review of the work of Phyllis Bray (excellently profiled by the Gentle Author at greater length on 24 April 2013), another member of the East London Group of artists. It is prompted by the publication of “Titania and Oberon,” illustrated by Phyllis Bray, with a foreword by David Buckman, described as ‘an art historian who is an expert in the lives and times of the East London Group.’ Pavilion Children’s Books, £12.99.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:11:01 +0000

The paintings of the Steggles brother give the East End streets a quiet and modest dignity. Valerie