Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1920s.
Moved to London when he was nineteen.Exhibited 1935-36 including 244 works at the Arlington Gallery.Lord Wakefield purchased the entire collection which he donated to The Guildhall Art Gallery.Essentially a London topographer in a style reminiscent of the Belle Époque artists Herbert Menzies Marshall and Rose Barton,he brought an effective atmospheric facility and an eye for composition to his tropical subject matter.Macdonald died at Pao Pao, on the Isle de Moore’s,in French Oceana in August 1956 aged 96. ‘ St Paul’s Cathedral and The Houses of Parliament from the River Thames ,London’ pair signed watercolours; each image size 8.5x18.5 cms,each framed size 20x29.5 cms.A delightful small pair of atmospheric watercolours by this collectible artist.
Graham Reed Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1920s.
Previously I worked in london as a chartered surveyor and have been dealing in paintings for nearly thirty years.
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William Alister Macdonald Pair Watercolours ‘ St Pauls Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament from the River Thames,london’
