Cecil M. Round Online

Back to the market for 2024 comes, Summer Garden, which is being sold under the working title, Landscape With Girls In The Rose Garden, by Lodge & Thomas Auctioneers in Truro as part of a two-day auction event. Lot 1805 is scheduled to go under the hammer on Friday 31st May 2024.

Please see our previous ‘On The Market…‘ write-up and observations of this wonderful painting (06/01/2023), whilst noting that as before, we have no affiliation to the seller or to the auction sale. Happy bidding!

The painting is being offered for sale via online auction through The Saleroom – HERE.

Fresh to the market for 2023 come two very different paintings – both reflecting a Devon landscape – both being offered for auction through Bearnes, Hampton & Littlewood of Exeter, as part of their Winter Sale on 17th and 18th January, 2023.

The first, a colourful summer garden scene, depicts a young girl with dark hair seated on a deckchair, turning to greet the arrival of her friend who is entering the distinctive cottage garden gate, a short distance away. Both girls are wearing summer dresses of the period; the new arrival of rosy complexion despite donning a straw hat for protection from the intense sun. She carries a small parcel in her hand.

To their right, the thatch roof of a traditional Devon cottage peaks into view, standing proud above the colourful array of cottage garden flowers of a quintessentially English garden setting. Beyond the garden, rolling hills stretch out above a wooded landscape, meeting the clear blue sky dotted with light, fluffy clouds upon the horizon.

Although the painting dates from 1930, the colours remain vibrant, having been mounted behind glass. The painting has been in one family ownership for the past 55+ years, and although the artist has not indicated the location of the garden, we are told that family tradition suggests it is possibly a Dartmoor scene (around Widecombe in the Moor), although sadly, this cannot be substantiated.

Cecil Round died on 20th June 1933 and so this scene was painted towards the end of this life. It is one of only two paintings dated 1930 currently referenced within our database. This in itself doesn’t prove anything but we are yet to come across any paintings with a later date attribution; although there are many undated examples of his work which may succeed it. The painting is being offered for sale via online auction – HERE.

The second painting is more typical of Cecil Round’s coastal landscapes and can more clearly be identified as Anstey’s Cove, near Torquay. The painting is undated but the colour of the shrubs and trees in the foreground, possibly suggest an autumnal setting.

Beyond the path, leading to what appears to be a sandy beach (today it is shingle) within the sweeping cove, exposed cliffs rise above the coastline, clearly reflecting in the clear blue waters of the sea below, where a couple of sailing boats dot the horizon. You may wish to compare and contrast the painting with Anstey’s Cove today using this tourist office video from 2018 as your guide – HERE.

Cecil Round was familiar with Devon throughout most of his life, having first painted here in the 1880s, and having been living in Torquay when he died in 1933. Of particular relevance to this painting, he is known to have painted Anstey’s Cove in 1890 but our records indicate this was a larger painting, annotated accordingly.

The painting is being offered for sale via online auction – HERE.

As ever, we leave it to the collector’s own judgement in terms of determining valuation and price tag, whilst noting that we have no affiliation to the seller of either painting or to the auction sale. Happy bidding!

Thanks to everyone who has been in touch with us throughout the past year, and especially to those of you who have been kind enough to share news and images of your Cecil Round paintings, for our Online Gallery and News updates.

Over the course of 2022, several people contacted us offering Cecil Round paintings for sale. We were not able to directly match these paintings to prospective buyers and so two of the paintings subsequently went to public auction. One we were given advance notice of and were able to promote through our ‘On The Market…’ feature; the other, we only heard about retrospectively.

Interestingly, both paintings featured landscape scenes and appear to have been a similar size and condition. However, the auction sale promoted through ‘On The Market…’ achieved a hammer price nearly seven times greater than the unprompted sale, despite both paintings selling through reputable auction houses, and within days of each other. Coincidence? Maybe… but why leave it to chance!

If you are thinking of selling a Cecil Round painting in 2023, please do share the sale details in advance, and we will be happy to promote your auction or fixed price listing. There is no charge for this service; we are just happy to act as a clearing house for all things relating to Cecil Round’s work. In the meantime, please join us in dusting-off your Cecil Round paintings, as we wish a ‘Happy New Year’ to you all.

Coming fresh to the market in time for Christmas, is this wonderful painting from 1904. With the intense sunshine of a fine summer’s day beating down upon him, Cecil Round has captured a farmer at rest amongst the freshly cut crop of his corn field. While he enjoys a quiet picnic amongst the carefully stacked sheafs of corn, we see behind him the as yet unharvested crop that awaits his toil. In the background, the field disappears toward a wide river estuary upon which small sailing boats tack in the summer breeze, with hills rising beyond within the distant haze.

This oil on canvas painting has been signed and dated by the artist on the front, with the verso frame edge and label also inscribed: Golden Days of Summer. Measuring approximately 59 x 90 cm, this is one of Cecil Round’s larger paintings.

We are fortunate to have been contacted by the current owner of the painting, who kindly shared the image for our online gallery in 2020. As ever, we leave it to the collector’s own judgement in terms of determining valuation and price tag, whilst noting that we have no affiliation to the seller or to the auction sale.

The painting is being offered for sale via auction through The Cotswold Auction Company in Cheltenham, as part of The Christmas Sale on 13th December 2022. The painting is listed as Lot 65 of the sale catalogue and can be viewed HERE.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of our Cecil Round website. What started out as an online gallery of some twenty or so pictures, now includes seventy examples of Cecil Round’s work.

Thanks to everyone who has taken the trouble to contact us over the past ten years – your input, however large or small, has been a valuable contribution to our research.  As ever, the purpose of this website is two-fold: to celebrate the life of the man behind the art and to act as a clearing house for news and information relating to his work. As our research continues and new details come to light, we periodically update and expand the content of the site – any help you are able to provide, by supplying news, information and images of his artwork, will continue to be gratefully received and acknowledged.