William Hounsom Byles Britain, New Zealand, 1872-1924
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About William Hounsom Byles
William Hounsom Byles was born in England in 1872 and lived most of his life in London, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1894 and 1916. Mostly known as a sporting painter usually associated with horse painting, and illustrator, Byles was also a competent landscape, portrait and figurative artist. He was made a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1901. His paintings were also exhibited at The Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham, The Leicester Gallery, London, and The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. He arrived in New Zealand in 1906 and is known to have exhibited at the Auckland Society of Arts, Canterbury Society of Arts from 1907 to 1916, the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1912 and the Otago Art Society.
The earliest auction listing we have for William Byles is in 1981 and in total 66 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 44 (67%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $17,250 for An Idle Hour sold by Sotheby's in August 1994. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2020. Works by William Byles are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery.
William Hounsom Byles is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 38
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