Oil on canvas, 46 by 61 cm (18 by 24 ins)

Provenance: T.W. Spurr Esq.; Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 28 November 1984.
from whom purchased by Sir Richard Attenborough; Sotheby's, London, 23 November 2016, lot 119

Exhibited: London, Wildenstein & Co Ltd, Cross Section of English Painting, March-April 1938, no.27 

In 1914 Ginner founded an artistic movement with his Camden Town Group colleague, Harold Gilman, called Neo-Realism that essentially came to an end following the latter’s death in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1919. Despite this, that movement’s style of decorative realism remained central to Ginner’s artistic vision. His style of painting is instantly recognisable, a technique of employing thick (almost three dimensional) impasto to the canvas. His fellow painter Hubert Wellington wrote in the introduction to his memorial show with the Art’s Council in 1953: ”Ginner became almost exclusively a painter of landscapes  - expansive, worked from corner to corner in mosaic-like touches, always with the accentuation of pattern in mind. I do not think he ever deliberately composed a picture, but he found subjects everywhere…”. Shipley in Sussex also provided the location for one of the artist’s best-known later paintings Through a Cottage Window, Shipley, Sussex now in the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle (acc.1946.23.3).