Arthur Legge RBA Exh 1883-1920.Figure and Landscape Painter in oil and watercolour.Lived at Doncaster and later at Forest Gate,Essex.Exhibited 72 works at RBA,17 at RA and elsewhere including at Walker Art Gallery,Liverpool and at Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. ‘The Pool,Finchingfield,Essex’ signed watercolour,dated 1914,image size 45x34 cms,framed size 66x55 cms; inscribed with title verso.Finchingfield is a village in the Braintree district in north -west Essex.Finchingfield is often called the most beautiful village in England,a “ picture-postcard” village and one of the most photographed,with a duck pond and village green surrounded by a Georgian and medieval cottages;St John the Baptist Church on the hill; an eighteenth century windmill,three public houses; Post Office; tea rooms; a doctors surgery.It has often appeared in television programmes.films and commercials,as well as on chocolate boxes,biscuit tins,and other products.Visitors are always given a frie...