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Oil on board, 13W X 15Q ins. (33.4 X 39.5 cms)
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Oil on canvas board, 14E X 17D ins. (37.5 X 44.8 cms.)

These still lives relate to Fleetwood-Walker's classic 1933 portrait Amity (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, no. 1619), which shows a young couple picnicking. In the finished painting the basket is filled with apples, rather than flowers - but the languidly reclining woman holds, at the very centre of the composition, the same variety of daisy. Daisies are traditionally a symbol of innocence, love, purity and beauty. The shape of the trug is different from the one in the final painting, but the stripy coat, which appears in Still life with pyrethrums, remains draped over the trug in the finished painting.
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Oil on panel
20 x 16 in. (51 x 41 cm.)

Provenance: Dr Peggy Fleetwood-Walker
Exhibited: John Lindsey Fine Art Ltd, September 1981
Literature: Fleetwood Walker, Memorial Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Soceity of Artists, illustrated front cover.

A photograph of Fleetwood Walker at his easle working on this painting features on the front cover of the Fleetwood Walker Memorial Exhibition catalogue held at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists circa 1965.
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Signed and dated; pencil and watercolour,
11 × 9.5 in. (28 × 24.1 cm.)
Provenance: Mrs P. Fleetwood-Walker
Exhibited: John Lindsey, Knowle, March 1981

The artist married Marjory White (Mickey) in 1920. Like Fleetwood-Walker she was from Birmingham, where her family were in the jewellery trade. It is likely that she met him when he was training to be a silversmith there.

We are grateful to Nicola Walker for assistance.
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Signed
Oil on Canvas
36 x 28 ins. (91.5 x 71 cm.)

Provenance: The Artists Studio Sale, Chrities South Kensington 1983; private collection Canada.

This painting, which pre-dates Fleetwood Walker's iconic double portrait Amity (Liverpool Walker Art Gallery, 1933) is of a compositional form in which the artist excelled. When the painting featured on the front cover of the 1983 Christies studio sale, (13th December) it was titled, Portrait of the artist's wife and daughter. Since Fleetwood Walker had no off-spring, from his first marriage, it more likely portrays the artist's wife and her younger sister.

Thumbnail panels:

Bernard Fleetwood Walker 1893-1965

Painter and draughtsman, mainly of figures and portraits. He was born in Birmingham, where he lived most of his life. Initially he was a modeller and metalworker, then studied painting at Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts, followed by London and Paris. He was wounded and gassed during Word War I (serving in the Artists' Rifles), but continued to paint and draw. After the war he taught for about ten years at King Edward's Grammar School, Aston, in 1929 leaving to teach at Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts. He exhibited extensively at the RA, showing over 150 works between 1925 and 1965. In 1946 he was elected ARA, and 1956 RA - and otherwise showed mainly at RWS, NEAC, RBSA and RP. He also had a one-man show at the Ruskin Gallery, Birmingham, 1925, and won a silver medal at the Paris Salon. He moved to London after retirement from teaching in Birmingham in 1951 to give more time to students at Royal Academy Schools, where he had been appointed assistant keeper. The RA, Leeds City Art Gallery, and other provincial and foreign galleries hold his work. In 1966 a memorial exhibition was held by the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and in 1981 John Lindsay Fine Art, Solihull, organised a retrospective exhibition in association with the Belgrave Gallery.