I posted these before, but now I’ve decided to put them permanenty in my web-site.
Donald,
Both look like a little slice of heaven.
REE
Very Very nice!
Thank You.
Donald, thank you very much. The paintings are beautiful.
Being addicted to North Country flies for many years I’d dearly love to visit Yorkshire and the area across the border to the north. Unfortunately that’s a trip for a younger, wealthier man than I.
I notice that the second painting, the one of the River Wye, is done by a Mr. Glanrhos. Is he the same gentleman that developed the fly that uses the hackle tip to form a wing?
Again, thanks very much for sharing the beauty.
Bill
Thanks for sharing. I could look all day at those paintings?
Bill,
Glanrhos is the name of the place, I think maybe the pool on the River Wye.
The painter was L. J. Graham-Clarke, a landowner in Gloucestershire who also owned the fishing rights on this stretch of the river. It was he who invented the Glanrhos style of wet fly. I have been trying to trace more info about him, but the English On-line records are much more dispersed to different authorities and it is a real puzzle finding a way through the maze. I did find out that two of his family were on the war memorial for the village in Gloucestershire, after WW1 they were very careful to name every one killed in the war, on war memorials. The first was a lieutenant in the KOSB (Kings Own Scottish Borderers), there may be a Scottish connection there. The second was for WW2 a 24year old lieutenat killed in Belgium with the Coldstream Guards in 1940. A lot of these old country families died out because of the two World Wars.
As regards the Glanrhos style it was not a popular or well known wet fly, the only info I had to start was in one of Sylvester Nemes books and Roger Wooley’s book.
The other picture was painted by Peter Graham (1836-1921), a quite well known Scottish artist of the period whose work is highly enough regarded to be in the National Gallery of Scotland.
A good few years ago I sent a copy of this picture to the late Ron Koenig (osprey) and he said the fly fisherman looked like he was using spiders.
Ah-HAH!
Again, Thanks very much Donald. Your light shining on my darkened brain has helped again. Not Mr. Glanrhos, but Mr. Graham-Clarke on the Glanrhos Pool. Thanks.
I very much enjoy your web site and will now regularly enjoy the two paintings you’ve added.
Again, thank you.
Bill
Firstly,
You have impecable taste for art .
Secondly ( 
) seeing these pictures reminded me of my(oh so long gone)youth in New England. Then I saw the captions . What a nice place these folkes lived in if it looked like that .
I want to live there again (N.E) someday.
P.
Beautiful. I’m using them for wallpaper.