The Painting
A pen, ink and watercolour measuring 12" x 16". Signed F.B. Jowett.
About the Artist
Frank B. Jowett (1879-1943) was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, the son of J.C.
Jowett, boot manufacturer of Regent Works. He became the Managing Director of the
Carrington Shoe Company and a Chairman of the Rotary International Art Group. For
several years he was Chairman of the Kettering and District Art Society. He exhibited
at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of
Watercolour Painters and the Royal Institute of Painters of Watercolours. He was
also a talented etcher. The Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering has nine works by
him in its permanent collection. In 1915 he was recorded as living at 9 Tennyson
Road, Kettering.
The Subject
Cottages by a Stream.