Wildlife Art
Medium: Watercolour
Measurements: W 31cm x H 16cm
Stock: Sold
Keith Hope Shackleton MBE original watercolour painting – A Flight of Swans
Provenance: Originally purchased from Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd London
Framed to the highest standard, bespoke hand painted waxed frame, conservation mount boards & tru vue museum glass
Supplied with a certificate of authenticity
Please note the dimensions of the artwork framed is approximately W 64cm x H 50cm
An artist resale right royalty (ARR) applies to this piece. The ARR fee of 4% is already included in the total cost of the piece and will be paid to the artists estate by Carnes Fine Art on or thereafter the sale of the artwork.
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Keith Hope Shackleton MBE was born on the 16th January 1923. He was a highly regarded artist, naturalist, author and television presenter. He was a very good friend of fellow conservationist and painter Sir Peter Markham Scott whom travelled together to the Antarctica. A retrospective exhibition of his polar studies depicting animals and their surroundings in the Arctic and Antarctic was held at the Scott Polar Research Institute in 2007. A passionate campaigner, Shackleton worked tirelessly on public awareness for endangered species and in 2013 he was awarded an MBE for his services to conservation of wildlife. Shackleton was also a past president of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and a founding member of the Society of Wildlife Artists.
