Category Archives: Spotlight Feature

Welcome to our twelfth ‘Spotlight Feature’.  As a change to our normal review, rather than concentrate on a particular painting, this month we thought a more general appraisal of the changing face of Cecil Round’s signature, might add real value … Continue reading →

Welcome to our eleventh ‘Spotlight Feature’.  With the summer months drawing rapidly to a close and, as the younger generation start preparing to return to school for another academic year, it seems an appropriate time to feature two wonderful paintings … Continue reading →

Welcome to our tenth ‘Spotlight Feature’.  This month we have decided to feature a very unusual painting – one that Cecil Round painted but about whose subject we know very little.  The painting first came to our attention in auction … Continue reading →

Welcome to our ninth ‘Spotlight Feature’.  With the summer months upon us, it seems appropriate to feature one of Cecil Round’s seasonal landscapes.  Our focus this month will therefore be on The Golden Cap, near Bridport in Dorset. This landscape … Continue reading →

Welcome to our eighth ‘Spotlight Feature’.  This month we will be focusing on a truly remarkable painting that Cecil Round created in 1881 – at just sixteen years old!  Unusually for Cecil Round, the painting has a religious theme.  It … Continue reading →

Welcome to our seventh ‘Spotlight Feature’. This month we will be sharing one of the most intriguing back-stories we have received, in relation to a Cecil Round painting. It is a real tale of mystery and hidden ‘treasure’. A good … Continue reading →

Welcome to our sixth ‘Spotlight Feature’. A few years ago, we were contacted by Alison Wagg who was hoping to sell an unframed Cecil Round canvas she had found tucked behind a wardrobe, while clearing her late-mother’s house. The picture … Continue reading →

Welcome to our fifth ‘Spotlight Feature’. We were approached a few years ago by Helen Ashworth and Robert Niven, who kindly shared images of two portraits of their ancestors, attributed to Cecil Round. The portraits date from 1917 and have … Continue reading →

Welcome to our fourth ‘Spotlight Feature’. About the time we were completing work on our last feature, ready for publication in early January, I was excited to receive news of ‘A Devon Lane’. The timing was impeccable. Having just written … Continue reading →

Welcome to our third ‘Spotlight Feature’.  A few years ago, we heard from Andrew Walmisley who, having seen our website, had been inspired to get his Cecil Round painting restored.  The painting of Torbay in Devon, dates from 1911 and … Continue reading →