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Arthur Norman Martin (1888-1961)
Title: “Exeter Cathedral, Lady Chapel”
(England)
Medium: Watercolour
Period: Dated 1919 verso
Size: 10” x 7”
Comments:
Certified by the artist’s son, Norman Duncan Martin.
Price
$350
Arthur Norman Martin lived in
Toronto. He traveled to Europe to paint, and he is best known for the use of
light in his watercolours. This is a prime example of his work, and is a fine
example of impressionist watercolour painting. The Lady Chapel is the
eastern-most part of the Cathedral. It was here that the 'new work' in the
decorated style was begun in about 1270, during the episcopate of Bishop Walter
Bronescombe (1258-1280). It is now reserved as a place for private prayer, where
votive candles may be lit. Exeter Cathedral is built on the camp of the Roman
Army's II Augustan Legion. Archaeological evidence of 5th century Christian
Worship has been found. In the Seventh Century, St Boniface the Patron Saint of
Germany was educated at a monastery or church adjacent to the Cathedral's
present location in 690. The history of the church as a cathedral dates from
1050 when the Bishop of Crediton (Devon) and St Germans (Cornwall) moved to
Exeter. The first Bishop of Exeter, Leofric, was personally installed in his new
see by King Edward the Confessor. The old minster of St Mary and St Peter became
the new cathedral and Leofric instituted a community of twenty-four canons to
help in his work. Kings who have visited and stayed at the cathedral include
William the Conqueror (1068), Edward I (1285), Henry IV (1403) and Henry VII
(1497) after Exeter had helped crush an uprising by Perkin Warbeck related to
the War of the Roses.
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