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'Miner Emerging from a Stope.' The War Artists’ Advisory Committee assigned Graham Sutherland to 3 weeks underground in Cornish tin-mines in 1942. He was moved by the shapes, colours and textures he found, writing to Kenneth Clark that he found this subterranean world thrilling.
Michael Andrews's picture shows the artist Leslie Davenport painting in his garden. Andrews liked to depict people putting themselves to the test, performing, succeeding or failing, as he saw it from a classic outsider’s perspective.
Elisabeth Vellacott's images of people in houses, gardens and landscapes have a timeless and magical air - as if figures from early Italian frescoes had changed their clothes and wandered into her home city of Cambridge.
Mark Gertler first spotted Natalie Denny at Augustus John’s New Year’s Eve party in 1927 and immediately asked her to sit for him. As charming as she was beautiful she was much-sought after and sat for various artists including Christopher Nevinson, John Armstrong and Harry Jonas
'In Andrew's Field,' (1913) Paul Nash focused his composition on an elm tree which stands tall surveying the landscape as a dominating and privileged witness of life. The shape of the tree is accentuated by the arc of birds flying above, themselves an emblem of freedom.
'An Old Elm, Blewbury, Berkshire,' (1946) at first sight appears an unassuming work with a spontaneous and fresh feeling, but there is a haunting, slightly mysterious quality to it, the suggestion of some deeper significance.
'Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris.' (c1960) If there is a stereotype of North Wales as a land of mountains, it has much to do with the art of Kyffin Williams who, for more than half a century, painted the rugged landscape of Snowdonia and its people in a style unmistakably his own.
Paul Feiler's style was for many years lyrical with harmonious tones and shapes that for all their abstraction, were based on his experience of the natural world, as in this work from 1947 which features the hamlet of East Dundry, near Bristol.
John Piper's Snowdonia pictures, produced between 1943-1950 have found more universal and consistent acclaim than works characterising any other single period of his career.
This is 'Llyn-y-Gader, Cader Idris.'
'Entering the Lemaire Channel, Antartica.' Prince Philip invited Edward Seago on a tour of the Antarctic in 1956, and his subsequent paintings, considered to be among his best, hang at Balmoral.