Bank Holiday show_depth Even more impressive that Rönquist

Even more impressive that Rönquist painted this while still a student of twenty five at the Swedish Royal Academy

for a time

The shy young teenager is his daughter

Where Hitler’s bombers had failed progress triumphed

An iconic image of the period

Bank Holiday show_depth Even more impressive that RönquistThis is pure 1950s nostalgia, an image of the British public at play as if frozen in a Path News reel. Frustratingly there is no signature nor handy provenance to give a clue to authorship. The day trippers in small craft jostling in amongst the barges at a country lock are reminiscent of many 20th century painters. Stylistically it is pure Camberwell School of the period and if I were a betting man I would back three young students of the