| The Drapers’ Company is delighted to announce that it recently commissioned Liveryman, Francis Farmar to paint a watercolour depicting Drapers’ Hall. The resulting painting was unveiled to much acclaim at the Election Dinner in 2003.
The painting is characterised by Francis’s technique of using a bird’s-eye panorama, a technique that has a long tradition stretching back to the sixteenth century.
Limited edition glicée prints of this painting are now available for purchase. All prints are hand signed and numbered by the artist.
The Painting
With the exception of the buildings in the right hand foreground, all the buildings shown in detail in the painting comprise the island site bounded by Throgmorton Avenue, Throgmorton Street and Austin Friars that has been owned by the Drapers’ Company since 1543. The buildings include both Drapers’ Hall, with its courtyard and garden, and other late 19th century office buildings that are held as property investments.
The Artist
Francis Farmar has been a Liveryman of the Drapers’ Company since 1973. His father, Hugh Farmar, was Clerk to the Company from 1952 to 1973.
After training in Italy, then St. Martin’s College of Art London and the West of England College of Art, Francis abandoned painting for fifteen years, to work for the auctioneers Christie’s, becoming Director of the Modern British Picture department.
In 1986, Francis left London to live in Scotland and began painting again. He later moved his base to the Wiltshire/Dorset border from where he travels extensively abroad. He has had one-man exhibitions in London each year since 1992 and has also shown work at many mixed shows in the UK and abroad. Latterly many of his works have been paintings of houses and estates commissioned by private or corporate clients.
For further information about commissions and exhibitions, please refer to Francis’s website: www.francisfarmar.com
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Glicée Print Details
Size: 18" x 18"
Edition Copies: 250
Format: Unmounted
Medium: Limited edition glicée on paper
Price: £95.00
60% of the profits from the sale of the prints will go to the Company’s Gift and Legacy Fund.
For further enquiries and how you can purchase please
tel 020 7588 5001 or
email mail@thedrapers.co.uk
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