J.M. STRINGER GALLERY

Oliver Clare was born in Birmingham, England in 1853. He was a painter of still-life pictures with fruit and flowers. He was trained by his father, George.

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Oliver was a member of the famed Clare family of painters, the son of George and the brother of Vincent. All three members worked mainly in Birmingham and painted similar subjects.

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Oliver Clare was notorious for often settling local pub tabs with his paintings.

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While living in Birmingham, a local health firm by the name of "Health Food Stores" commissioned him to paint still-lives so that they could be reproduced on postcards and posters.

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Clare exhibited many paintings during his lifetime, including eighteen works at The Royal Society of British Artists, Birmingham, The Walker Gallery, Liverpool and The Manchester Gallery, Manchester.

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During the late 1870s and early 1880s, he lived in London and exhibited works at The Royal Academy and The Royal Society of British Artists.

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Oliver Clare died in 1927.