Early Morning, Tower Bridge Scottish Show 2022 I still love the image

I still love the image though

This is not from that source but nevertheless is a fine example of Willie’s painting

It won’t go unnoticed that I’ve slipped in a few Swedish painters this year

He was a warm and humorous soul whose personality poured onto the page or canvas

I absolutely adore them but they are rare and I expect one day soon a cleverer and richer dealer will root out a stash on the continent and make them very expensive overnight

Early Morning, Tower Bridge Scottish Show 2022 I still love the imageWhen the Thames was a working river, the Pool of London was a popular subject for painters. London Docks were the heart of the capital pumping goods and people to and from the Empire and the view of that stretch of the river leading up to Tower Bridge would have been familiar to all Londoners. This is a classic view of The Pool at a time when its usefulness had started to terminally wane. Painted in the mid 1950s, barely a decade later the shipping