Zingibar, 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973)

Zingibar, 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973)Ophelias mother Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell is usually referred to as a society animal painter. She was one of three sisters from a London family; Dorothea, who owned the house in St. Johns Wood where Ophelia grew up, also had a large property on the outskirts of Windermere, hence the Lake District connection. There is a reference to Winifred in Heaton Coopers autobiography Mountain Painter in which he notes that she was "a painter of animals,

The powerful twin combination of rushing water and rock were one of William’s favourite subjects to paint

labelled and packed into tins in The Florence Paintmakers' studio

Canvas - 767 x 559mm / 30

featuring short

across subjects from figure drawing and landscape sketching to abstract compositions

The Bockingford Watercolour Mixed Pads contain 12 sheets of 300gsm/140lb watercolour paper

and Winifred would often paint the horses and  foals which could be seen in the fields above the town

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surface sized & acid free

It evokes a bygone era in which horse drawn reapers or binders were used to cut and bale the wheat into sheaves

masterly in its precision and economy of handling