Biography

Edward Seago 1910-1974, who lived in Brooke Lodge was one of Britain's finest Twentieth Century Impressionist painters. Edward Brian Seago was born March 31,1910. He was a painter of landscapes, marines and flowers in an Impressionist style. He was the son of a local coal merchant. He studied at the Royal Drawing Society and won an award at the age of 14. Although Seago was largely self-taught he did receive some instruction from Bertram Priestman.

He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists from 1946, and of the Royal Watercolors Society from 1959. He exhibited in London, Glasgow, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, Oslo and Brussels. He showed his first personal exhibition in London in 1944, and two years later presented paintings giving a narrative history of the Italian war. In 1957, still in London at Saint James Palace, Seago presented canvases he had realized during the world tour of the Duke of Edinburgh. Essential to a landscape artist, he remained faithful to an impressionistic atmosphere, attempting to capture the rapid touches from the shimmering of light, made to sometimes bathe together in a blur like that of Turner. He liked to translate English landscapes in particular like those of Norfolk, but also painted much from abroad.

He was a painter of landscapes, seascapes and flowers. He was also a watercolorist and is considered a Postimpressionist. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists from 1946, and of the Royal Watercolors Society from 1959. He exhibited in London, Glasgow, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, Oslo and Brussels.

During the Second World War Seago served with the Royal Engineers and often painted in Italy with Field-Marshall Lord Alexander. His war pictures were exhibited in 1946 at the Norwich and Bristol Municipal Galleries.

He showed his first personal exhibition in London in 1944, and two years later presented paintings giving a narrative history of the Italian war. In 1957, still in London at Saint James Palace, Seago presented canvases he had realized during the world tour of the Duke of Edinburgh. Essential to a landscape artist, he remained faithful to an impressionistic atmosphere, attempting to capture the rapid touches from the shimmering of light, made to sometimes bathe together in a blur like that of Turner. He liked to translate English landscapes in particular like those of Norfolk, but also painted much from abroad.

In 1968 Seago acquired 'Ca Conca', a villa apartment in the elegant yachting resort of Porto Cervo on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. The terrace offered fine views of the harbour to the right.

Edward Seago was involved in the publication of many books throughout his career. In 1934 he published a book entitled Sons of Sawdust which told of circus life in the West of Ireland. He also published Peace in War (1943), High Endeavour (1944), With The Allied Armies in Italy (1945) and his autobiography A Canvas to Cover (1947). In 1936 some 42 of his paintings were used to accompany John Masefield's collection of poems, The Country Scene and he worked with Masefield again on Tribute to Ballet in 1937 and a Generation Risen (1942).