Signed l.r.: George Mackley

Oil on canvas, 51 by 61 cm

Provenance: deaccesioned from the collection of Kent County Council

Executed in c.1930. Mackley was one of the pre-eminent British wood engravers of his day, his 1948 publication Wood Engraving being one of the great manuals for the medium. Albert Garrett wrote of Mackley in his 1978 book A History of Wood Engraving: "A few square centimetres of Mackley is more charged with aesthetic energy, emotion and precision than many artists can muster in a lifetime...". His paintings are rare, earlier examples such as this, capturing the English landscape with same level of dramatic, graphic, precision.