Francis Henry Newbery (1855-1946) The regatta at Walberswick Signed Oil on board 42.5 x 69.5cm...

Francis Henry Newbery (1855-1946)

The regatta at Walberswick

Signed

Oil on board

42.5 x 69.5cm

Provenance:

T. & R. Annan & Sons, Glasgow;

from whom purchased by Sir Arthur Stewart Lusk Young Bt;

and by descent to the present Private Collector

Francis Henry Newbery was the highly influential director and headmaster of the Glasgow School of Art. Under his leadership the school became associated with the Glasgow School and artists including Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Newbery would spend his summers at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast, often with fellow artists such as Mackintosh.