Oil on canvas board, 15 1/2 by 11 1/2 ins (39.5 by 29 cm)
At the first Camden Town Groupexhibition in 1911, the art critic of The Daily Telegraph singled out Ratcliffe as “a valiant and well-skilled Impressionist of the French type”. His distinctively dry and thick application of paint, very much evident in the present work, lead him to be considered amongst the group’s most progressive painters, at his best the equal of his better-known friend, Harold Gilman, Despite living on into the 1950s, Ratcliffe remains one of the rarer and less well-known members of the original Camden Town Group. He lived for most of his life in Letchworth in Hertfordshire and much of his best work champion’s life in suburbia, including those of his home town and Hampstead Garden Suburb.
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