Above Castle Stewart, Inverness £200
Signed watercolour measuring 36cm x 54cm. Provenance: Abbott & Holder. A few light spots visible in sky area. Conservation mounted.
Clifford Webb RBA, RE (1894 – 1972) was an English artist, illustrator and writer. He was apprenticed as a lithographer, but served in the British Army (Wiltshire Regiment) during World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art. He fought at Mons, Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia. From 1919 to 1922, he studied at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky and then from 1923 to 1926 he was a part-time lecturer at Central School of Art in Birmingham.
Webb produced illustrations for the first two books of the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome, which were used in some 1930s editions.
Signed watercolour measuring 36cm x 54cm. Provenance: Abbott & Holder. A few light spots visible in sky area. Conservation mounted.