RARE Original TRAIN Oil Painting On Photograph Edwin T Rudd ( F Moore) 1897-1933

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RARE Original TRAIN Oil Painting On Photograph Edwin T Rudd ( F Moore) 1897-1933:
$275.00

+-RARE Original TRAIN Oil Painting On Photograph Edwin T Rudd ( F Moore) 1897-1933 British ArtistThomas Rudd painted pictures of locomotives and trains for over 40 years leaving an incomparable record of the appearance of all forms of the railway scene in the days of the pregrouping companies. Most of Rudd\'s work was done for The Locomotive Publishing Company, his pictures usually being signed \'F. Moore\' or \'F.M.\'. Rudd painted the original oil pictures from which colour plates were produced for The Locomotive Magazine from 1897 until 1933. His work is probably best-known in the series of coloured postcards which appeared between 1903 and 1927 with many later reprints. His paintings also formed the background for many coloured plates in the Railway Magazine and numerous books such as The Wonder Book of Railways, J. R. Howden\'s Locomotives of the World, etc. as well as for cigarette cards.

Most were painted on top of card-mounted photographs. A number of originals have survived and most are in the collections of the Science Museum and the National Railway Museum. Mr Rudd did a lot more than add colour to the images and displayed considerable drawing skills when it came to redrafting from the original

Image size 8\" X 5 1/2\"

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