Major Ernest Gambier-Parry Sold at Auction Prices

Ernest Gambier-Parry, OBE., (1853-1936)

Suffolk Salt Marshes,Oil on panel,Signed, dated and inscribed on reverse: Sufflolk Salt ,Marsh. E. Gambier Parry 1904,also signed on the front, lower left,5½ x 9¼ inches; 14 x 23.5 cm. 5 x 8½ inches; 12.75 x 21.5 cm.Suffolk Salt Marshes,Signed with initials on the reverse, dated 19035½ x 9¼ inches; 14 x 23.5 cm. 5 x 8½ inches; 12.75 x 21.5 cm. Major Ernest Gambier-Parry, OBE (25 October 1853 - 15 April 1936) was a British military officer who participated in an expedition to the Sudan in 1885. However, the wounds he sustained in that campaign ended his military career. Gambier-Parry was an accomplished musician and artist. Son of Thomas Gambier Parry, a renowned collector of early Italian works of art whose collection was eventually bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute of Art. He exhibited several works of art at the Royal Academy, London.