Derek Hill
Study of a Harbour, c. 1950
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches
Signed to stretcher verso
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Provenance
A gift from the artist; by descent
Note: Derek Hill is perhaps best known as a portrait artist but was also, in the words of a friend and critic, a master of landscape. As a collector, Derek Hill's interests lay particularly in the work of those artists who inspired him as a painter, notably Vuillard, and in paintings which reflect an interest in his English, Irish, and Italian contemporaries, with a preference for small paintings of considerable intensity, a quality reflected in his own best work.