Fred Viner
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Frederick Viner (5 March 1858 – 17 August 1940) was an English watercolour artist.[1]
Frederick Viner, known as Fred, and his twin brother Alfred, were born at Gardener's Lodge, Sheen Mount, East Sheen, sons of William Viner and Jane Whiting; their father was gardener to Mr Henry Porter Smith.[2] Their mother died shortly after their births.[3] He was educated at Mortlake Schools.[1]
From 1873 he was a seaman and in 1876 he signed up for ten years service in the Royal Navy but was discharged in 1878.[4] On the 1881 Census he is recorded in Canterbury Prison as a mariner[5] serving 15 months 'hard labour' for housebreaking.[6][7] He said that he had made several crossings of the Atlantic.[8]
In 1899 he returned to live in Richmond and at the time of the 1901 Census was living in Sheen Road.[9] He made his living as a watercolour artist painting local scenes, mostly of Richmond, Kew and Isleworth, but also seascapes and other locations.[10] His paintings are signed F.Viner. He had a studio on the Quadrant set up for him by Mr Thomas Day, the Registrar.[1]
During World War I he was at Aldershot doing war work.[1] He then lived at the Grove Road Institution, Richmond;[11][12] he exhibited watercolours and rugs at the Brabazon Society[1] annual exhibitions and sales.[13][14] He was recorded as an inmate on the 1939 Register,[15] died there in 1940 and is buried in Richmond Cemetery.[1]
Some of his paintings are in the Richmond Borough Art Collection at Orleans House, the Richmond Local Studies collection and in the Hounslow archives.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "82-year-old twin. Death of Mr Frederick Viner. Well-known landscape artist". Richmond Herald. 24 August 1940. p. 3.
The many friends of Mr. Frederick Viner, 82-year old twin brother of Alfred Viner, will learn with regret of his death, which occurred on Saturday after he had been ill in the Richmond Institution, Grove-road, Richmond, since Whitsun. The twins, who were probably the oldest in the district, were born on March 5th, 1858 in the Gardener's Lodge, Sheen Mount, East Sheen, where their father, Frederick Viner, was gardener to Mr. Porter Smith. Their uncle, Mr. George Viner, who died over a year ago, was for a number of years Beadle of Kew Parish and verger at the Parish Church. Mr. Frederick Viner was educated at the Old Mortlake Schools, and afterwards travelled all over the world painting pictures. He was well known in the district as a landscape artist, and some of his paintings are to be seen in Richmond Library. The Star and Garter Home, Richmond-hill, was one of his favourite subjects to paint. When he returned to Richmond in 1899. he went to the Grove-road Institution, and has been there ever since. The Brabazon Society, at Grove-road, has received a great deal of work done by him, and he was awarded many certificates for his work, one of which was for rug-making. During the last war, he was at Aldershot, engaged on war work. A studio was set up at the Quadrant for him by the father of Mr. Thomas Day (registrar of births, deaths and marriages, of Sheen-road, Richmond) when he arrived back in Richmond after a long absence. Mr. Porter Smith's daughter, who always took an interest in Mr. Viner, wrote to him every year and always enclosed a small present. The remaining twin, Mr. Alfred Viner, is still well and active, and lives at 70, Dancer road, Richmond, with his daughter, Mrs. Easden. His grand-daughter, Ivy May Easden, recently married Mr. William C. Priestnall, of Mortlake. Mr. Frederick Viner was buried at Richmond Cemetery on Thursday.
- ^ Ancestry.com. 1861 England Census. Class: RG 9; Piece: 461; Folio: 67; Page: 14; GSU roll: 542642
- ^ "Entry for Jane Viner, 16 March 1858. England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992". Family Search.
- ^ "UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services for Frederick Viner". Ancestry. 5 March 1876.
- ^ "1881 England Census for Frederick Viner. 1881 Canterbury St Augustine Kent England". Ancestry.
- ^ Fred Viner in the England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892, Class: HO 27; Piece: 185; Page: 301. Ancestry. 11 Oct 1880 Kent.
- ^ "Housebreaking in Clarendon Road". The Faversham Mercury and Sittingbourne and Whitstable Journal. 16 October 1880. p. 4.
- ^ "Mayor and old folk. A trip on the Thames". Richmond Herald. 24 September 1932. p. 20.
- ^ Ancestry.com. 1901 England Census. Class: RG13; Piece: 674; Folio: 89; Page: 20
- ^ Darby, Paul (17 July 2020). "Ivy House (1904). A Grade II Listed Building in Southampton, City of Southampton".
- ^ "Grove Road Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. 2008.
- ^ "A Home From Home. Two Mayors at Grove Road Institution. Gifts for the Inmates". Richmond Herald. 31 December 1932. p. 14.
- ^ "Brabazon Employment Society. Exhibition of work and annual sale". Richmond Herald. 5 November 1927. p. 14.
- ^ "Brabazon Employment Society. Exhibition of works and annual sale". Richmond Herald. 16 October 1937. p. 21.
- ^ Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register. Reference: RG101/1382G/002/12
- ^ "View of Isleworth". Thames Pilot.
External links
[edit]- Works by F Viner Richmond Borough Art Collection
- Watercolour by Viner, F Richmond Local Studies Collection
