Sales will be taken from 5th April, 2025

Francis Hoyland

The Life of Christ 87 oil paintings on board each 40 x 57.5cm with Biblical references, painted 1996 to 1997 over two years

Saturday 5th April noon to 5pm Continuing to 27th April 2025

Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm or by appointment

Sizes quoted are of artworks. Where enquiries of prices are made on the gallery, the work is subject to availability and the price to change.

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The Angel and Zacarias
Luke 1: 5 – 25
The Annunciation to Mary
Luke 1: 26 - 38
The Magnificat – Visitation
Luke 1: 31 - 56
Zacarias Naming St John the Baptist
Luke 1: 57 - 80
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
Luke 2: 8 - 20
The Worship of the Three Wise Men
Matthew 2: 1 - 12
The Presentation in the Temple
Luke 2: 41 - 50
The Flight into Egypt
Matthew 2: 13 - 15
The Massacre of the Innocents
Matthew 2: 16 - 18
The Visit to the Temple when Twelve Years old
Luke 2: 41 - 50
The Ministry of St John the Baptist
Matthew 3: 1 - 12; Mark 1: 1 - 8 Luke 3: 1 -18
The Baptism
Matthew 13: 13 - 17; Mark 1: 9 - 11 Luke 3: 21 - 22
The Temptation
Matthew 4: 1 - 11; Mark 1: 12 - 13 Luke 4: 1 - 13
The Marriage of Cana
John 2: 1 - 11
The Discourse with Nicodemus
John 3: 1 - 21
The Dialogue with the Samaritan Woman
John 4: 4 - 42
The Nobleman’s Son
John 4: 46 - 54
The Rejection of our Lord at Nazareth
Luke 4: 16 - 30
‘From now on You will Catch Men…’
Luke 5: 1 - 11
The Evening Healing
Matthew 8: 16 - 17 Mark 1: 32 - 34; Luke 4: 40 - 41
The Pool of Bethesda
John 5
The Disciples Plucking Grain
Matthew 12: 1 - 8; Mark 2: 23 - 28 Luke 6: 1 - 3
The Man with a Withered Hand
Matthew 12: 9 - 14; Mark 3: 1 - 6 Luke 6: 6 - 11
The Choosing of the Twelve
Mark 3 13 - 19; Luke 6: 12 - 16
The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5
The Raising of the Widow’s Son at Nain
Luke 7: 11 - 17
The Anointing of Jesus in the House of Simon the Pharisee
Luke 7: 36 - 50
The Healing of the Dumb Man
Matthew 12: 22 - 32 Mark 3: 20 - 30
The Parables by the Sea
Matthew 13: 1 - 33 Mark 4: 1 - 34
The Stilling of the Tempest
Matthew 8: 23 - 27 Mark 4: 35 - 41; Luke 8: 22 - 25
The Woman with the Issue of Blood
Matthew 9: 18 - 22 Luke 8: 40 – 56
The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter
Matthew 9: 18 - 26 Mark 5: 21 - 43; Luke 8: 40 - 56
The Two Blind Men
Matthew 9: 27 - 31
The Mission of the Twelve
Matthew 10: 1 - 42 Mark 6: 7 - 13; Luke 9 1 - 6
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
Matthew 14: 13 - 23; Mark 6: 30 - 44 Luke 9: 10 - 17; John 6: 1 - 15
Our Lord Rescues St Peter
Matthew 14: 24 - 33 Mark 6: 43 - 52; John 6: 16 - 21
The Syrophoenician Woman’s Daughter
Matthew 15: 2 - 28 Mark 7: 24 - 30
The Healing of the Dumb Man
Mark 7: 32 - 37
The Pharisees and Sadducees Demand a Sign
Matthew 12: 38 - 42 Mark 8: 11 - 13
Peter’s Confession
Matthew 16: 13 – 20 Mark 8: 27 – 30; Luke 9: 18 - 21
Peter Rebuked
Matthew 16: 21 – 28 Mark 8: 31 - 33
The Transfiguration
Matthew 17: 1 – 8 Mark 9: 2 – 8; Luke 9: 28 - 36
The Demonic Boy
Matthew 17: 14 – 20 Mark 9: 14 – 29; Luke 9: 37 - 43
The Shekel in the Fish’s Mouth
Mattew 17: 24 - 27
The Discourse on Humility
Matthew 8: 1 - 4 Mark 9: 33 - 37; Luke 9: 46 - 48
The Woman Taken in Adultery
John 8: 1 - 11
Before Abraham was …..
John 8: 31 - 59
James and John Rebuked for a Violent Intention
Luke 9: 51 - 56
The Return of the Seventy
Luke 10: 17 - 20
The Visit to Mary and Martha
Luke 10: 38 - 42
The Healing of the Man Born Blind
John 9
Christ Rejected at the Feast of Dedication
John 10: 22 - 39
Christ Rebuking the Lawyer in the House of The Pharisee
Luke 11: 37 - 54
The Woman Healed on the Sabbath
Luke 13: 10 - 17
Christ Heals a Man with Dropsy
Luke 14: 1 - 6
The Raising of Lazarus
John 11: 1 - 46
The Ten Lepers
Luke 17: 11 - 19
The Departure of the Rich Young Ruler
Matthew 15: 16 - 22 Mark 10: 17 - 22; Luke 18: 18 -23
Christ Foretells His Crucifixion
Matthew 20: 17 - 19 Mark 10: 32 - 34; Luke 18: 31 - 34
The Ambitious Mother of James and John
Matthew 20: 20 - 23 Mark 10: 35 - 40
Blind Bartimaeus
Matthew 20: 29 - 34 Mark 10: 46 - 52
Jesus Anointed by Mary at Bethany
Matthew 26: 6 - 13 Mark 14: 3 - 9; John 12: 1 - 8
The Triumphal Entry
Matthew 21: 1 - 11; Mark 11 1 - 11; Luke 19: 28 - 44; John 12: 12 - 19
The Cursing of the Figtree
Matthew 21: 18 - 22 Mark 11: 12 - 14 and 20 - 25
The Cleansing of the Temple
Matthew 21: 12 - 16 Mark 11: 15 - 19; Luke 19: 45 - 46
The Widows Mite
Mark 12: 41 - 44; Luke 21: 1 - 4
Christ Foretells the Destruction of Jerusalem
Matthew 24: 1 - 3 Mark 13: 1 - 2; Luke 21: 5 - 7
The Washing of the Disciple’s Feet
John 13: 1 - 17
The Eucharist
Mattew: 26 - 29 Mark 14: 22 - 25; Luke 22: 19 - 20
The Agony in the Garden
Matthew 26: 36 - 46 Mark 14: 32 - 42; Luke 22: 4 - 5
The Betrayal and Arrest
Mattew 26: 47 - 56; Mark 14: 43 - 52 Luke 22: 47 - 53; John 18: 1-11
St, Peter’s Denial
Matthew 26: 69 - 75; Mark 14: 66 - 72 Luke 22: 54 - 62; John 18: 15 - 27
The Trial before the Council of the Jews
Matthew 26: 67 - 68; Mark 14: 53 - 65 Luke 22: 66 -71; John 18: 12 - 27
The Tribal before Pilate
Matthew 27: 16 - 26; Mark 15: 1 - 15 Luke 23: 1 - 25; John 18: 28 - 40
The Trial Before Herod
Luke 23: 8 - 12
The Scourging of Christ
Matthew 27: 26 Mark15: 5; John 19: 1
Christ mocked by the Soldiers
Matthew 27: 27 - 31; Mark 15: 16 - 20 Luke 22: 63 - 65; John 19: 1 - 3
The Crowd Call for Barabas
Matthew 27: 15 - 26; Mark 15: 6 - 15 Luke 22: 13 - 25; John 18: 39 - 40
The Road to Calvary
Matthew 27 – 3; Mark 15: 21 - 22 Luke 23: 20 – 32; John 19: 16 - 17
The Crucifixion
Matthew 27: 33 - 56; Mark 15: 23 - 41 Luke 23: 33 – 49; John 19: 17 - 37
The Entombment / Deposition
Matthew 27: 57 - 61; Mark 15: 42 - 47 Luke 23: 50 - 56; John 19: 38 - 42
The Resurrection
John 20: 1 - 18
The Journey to Emmaus
Mark 16: 12 - 13; Luke 24: 13 - 32
The Supper at Emmaus
Luke 24: 28 - 35
The Appearance to Thomas
John 20: 24 - 29
Feed My Sheep
John 21
The Ascension
Mark 16: 19 - 20; Luke 24: 50 - 53 Acts 1: 6 - 11

Francis Hoyland

1930 born Selly Oak, Birmingham

1946-49 Studied Camberwell School of Art

1949-50 Slade School of Fine Art

1951 Abby Minor Scholarship to Italy

Married the artist Philippa Hoyland in 1953 and has two children, both of whom are musicians and one of whom is also a much exhibited painter and who, in turn, is married to another painter.

Exhibitions

1956 Royal West of England Academy

1958 Gallery de Seine
‘Looking Forward’ South London Art Gallery

1960/61 Beaux Arts Gallery

1966 Camden Arts Centre Survey

1968 ‘From Life’ Camden Arts Centre
Diploma Gallery of Royal Academy of Art, Oxford Bible Exhibition (Illustrated Oxford Old Testament)
Old Testament Drawings

1969 Retrospective, South London Art Gallery

1972 (Jan) Southwark Cathedral, 90 Diptychs of the Life of Christ
(Jun) Chichester Cathedral, 90 Diptychs of the Life of Christ

1975 ‘Drawings of People’ Serpentine Gallery, Arts Council.
(Prize-winner) ‘Past and Present’ Contemporary artists drawing from the Masters (also wrote main essay in catalogue)

1979 Convent of St Francesca Cabrini, Honor Oak. 14 pictures on the life of St Francesca Cabrini

1984 ‘The Forgotten Fifties’ Camden Arts Centre

1985 University of Surrey

1987-88 Manchester Art Gallery and touring

1990 Sweet Waters Gallery, drawings

1992 Southwark Cathedral, London 90 religious diptyches, tempera on paper (now in the collection of Aimee and Monroe Price) held in Yale University USA

1993 ‘Images of Christ’ Northampton Museum and Art Gallery and St Paul’s Cathedral

2000 “Stations of the Cross” for St. John the Baptist P.C., Needham Market
Exhibition and Seminar, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, Ridley Hall

2001 (2) 91 Prints on the ‘Life of Christ', Southwell Minster

2002 Chappel Galleries, Essex. Solo Show The Suffolk Landscapes

2003 British Museum selection of 91 etchings “The Life of Christ”
North Light Gallery, Huddersfield 91 etchings “The Life of Christ” and ninety one paintings

2007 St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London
Chappel Galleries, Essex “The Life of Christ” etchings

Radio (BBC)

1963-68 Radio talks, ‘Painting of the Month’

1967 Series of talks with Brian Robb on Florence

1987 Interview on ‘Kaleidoscope’ Pick of the Week

Television

1960 ‘The Art Game’ BBC
‘The Painters Response’ series of 5 programmes for 6th forms. BBC

1960s ‘Canvas’ BBC2
Series of talks for ITV

1992 ‘Rembrandt’ BBC2

2000 Interview on ‘Stations of the Cross’ at St. John the Baptist, Needham Market, ITV and Anglia TV

Teaching

1954-59 Royal West of England Art School

1960-66 Lecturer, Chelsea School of Art

1966-89 Senior Lecturer at Camberwell School of Art

1989-92 Course Director Fine Art Camberwell School of Arts

1992- Cardinal Wiseman Catholic Comprehensive School (part-time)

1992-2020 Prince’s Foundation – Shoreditch
Private class, Chelsea.

Works in numerous public and private collections; including suite of 91 etchings ‘The Life of Christ’ in British Museum and Yale University USA.

During the last five years I have made many drawings and paintings, both in gouache and acrylic. Maybe I have been attempting to integrate the demands of intellect and feeling.

At the back of my mind there has always been the hope that I could paint large pictures – like those I saw in Italy that tell stories and decorate churches – recently I have been producing them.

For a brief moment I saw seven of these large paintings in a beautiful church during the St Stephen’s festival. Only for a moment, but a thousand years is also a ‘moment’. “And now under circumstances that seem unpropitious”... we carry on.