Oil on board, 24 by 33 cm (9 ½ by 13 ins)

Provenance: Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts

In the summer of 1920 Stanley Spencer and his brother Gilbert visited Henry Lamb at the studio he was renting in Stourpaine in Dorset. A subsequent painting expedition to nearby Durweston resulted in some of Spencer’s finest mature landscape paintings. Lamb’s work at this date was at times strikingly similar to Spencer’s, both artists having recently completed their large scale War paintings for the British War Memorials Committee. The artists painted side by side in these trips – without the label and provenance from Lamb’s patron Carl Eric Bechofer Roberts it would be hard to distinguish this fine landscape painting from similar works by Stanley Spencer.