Bidspirit auction | Noel Harry Leaver ARCA Orientalist

Noel Harry Leaver ARCA Orientalist Watercolor Street Scene - This watercolor and bodycolor painting on paper is the work of British artist Noel Harry Leaver (1889-1951). The piece depicts a bright Orientalist street scene, likely a North African or Middle Eastern city, centered on a large white mosque with a tiered minaret and dome. The composition features a bustling marketplace in the foreground with figures in traditional attire, merchant stalls, and architectural details including stone archways and shuttered windows. The work is signed in the lower-left corner in dark pigment NOEL H. LEAVER. The suffix indicates the artist's status as an Associate of the Royal College of Art. The painting is set within a wide, mitered gold-painted mat and housed in an ornate, heavily distressed gilded plaster frame with scrolled floral and foliate molding.