Provenance

The Michael Parkin Gallery, London

Note: Painter, etcher, known for his detailed studies of horses and English rural life. Born in Calcutta, India; moved to England and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, leaving in 1897; apart from time during WWI, when he served in the British Army Service Corps, he lived and worked in Paris from 1905-1934; moved to London and exhibited extensively including: the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, Goupil Gallery, New English Art Club, New Gallery, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Royal Scottish Academy, Walker Art Gallery, both the London and Paris Salons and with the Royal Society of British Artists, of which he was elected member; worked as a war artist in 1939 and in 1942 was commissioned by the RAF. His work is held by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Mercer Art Gallery, RAF Museum, Hendon, and the Imperial War Museum as well as the British Museum, which acquired 78 of his prints in August, 1946.