Artist Auction Records

Owen Merton

Owen Heathcoate Merton (1887 - 1931) was active/lived in New York / New Zealand.  Owen Merton is known for Sea-landscape, still life.

Owen Heathcote Grierson Merton was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1887, a member of a family active in the Anglican church, in education and in the musical life of the community.  He was educated at Christ's College, where he had his first formal art lessons, and continued those studies at the Canterbury College School of Art (1903) and in London (1905-6).   During a return visit to New Zealand in 1907-9, he held solo exhibitions in Wellington and Christchurch, and participated in art society shows.  He met Dorothy Kate Richmond, the doyenne of the Wellington art scene, and her nephew Esmond Atkinson, who was also a painter.  Merton re-enrolled briefly at the Canterbury College School of Art in 1908.   In 1909 he returned to London, where he studied with the Flemish-born painter Charles van Havermaet in 1909-10, and made extended working visits to the Netherlands, Cornwall and Brittany.  On this last occasion he participated in a sketching classwww.childsgallery.com/artist.php   ...  [Displaying 1032 of 4208 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 41 auction lots for Owen Merton (of which 39 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Owen Merton as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Owen Merton in 0 of its research Essays. Owen Merton has 0 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Owen Merton available:    Maude Burge,  Dorothy Kate Richmond,  Louise Henderson,  Margaret Olrog Stoddart,  Doris Lusk,  Maud Winifred Sherwood,  Isabel Jane Field,  Francis McCracken,  Thomas Arthur McCormack,  Mina Arndt,  Blythe Fletcher,  Thomas Reginald Attwood,  Olivia Orme Spencer Bower,  John Gully,  Russell Clark,  William George Baker,  Rudolph (Rudi) Gopas,  William Menzies Gibb,  William Matthew Hodgkins,  Patricia France,  Charles Decimus Barraud,  Alan Maddox,  Colin McCahon,  Piera McArthur