Signed l.l.: John Cole

Oil on canvas

41 by 51 cm., 16 by 20 in.

Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1941, no.203; London, Royal Society of British Artists, September 1954, no.209; Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery, The Cole Family, Painters of the English Landscape, 1838-1975,1988 no.168

Literature: T.J.Barringer, The Cole Family: Painters of the English Landscape 1838-1975, Portsmouth City Museums 1988, pp.179-180 (no.168)

The quirky wooden shop at 27b Kensington Church Street stands in a small cul-de-sac off the main street and is still in use today. The builders George Jones & Son (whose name is discernable on the door to the right of the painting) operated from the yard next door well into the earlier part of the twenty first century.