James Noble 1919-1989.Born in Middlesex he studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and the Regent Street Polytechnic.He had as his master the well-known Scottish landscape painter and engraver Iain MacNab(1890-1979) who had himself had been a pupil of the fashionable Glasgow School of Art and Heatherleys, the oldest independent art school in London(founded in 1845,which focused on figurative painting) and eventually became the Principle. Noble soon found himself drawn to the flower painters of the great 17 th century Dutch romantic artists such as Ambrosius Bosschaert the Ekder,Roelandt Savery and Jan Brueghel the Elder.It is this genre that Noble found his forte. He favoured a somewhat simplistic approach to his compo...