Signed l.r.: David Gentleman

Watercolour, 39 by 55 cm

Exhibited: David Gentleman at Eighty, Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, March-April 2010, no.43

Gentleman’s early work from the 1950s is very rare and shows something of the influence of Bawden and John Nash who had taught him at the Royal College of Art, as well as a stylised rendering of the patterns of landscape that is reminiscent of his early work in linocut. Mistley is on an estuary on the Essex/Suffolk border on the banks of the river Stour a few miles downstream from Constable country.