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Signed and inscribed with title lower right

watercolour over traces of pencil

26 x 28.5 cm., 10 x 11 ? inches

The Burlings are a group of islands 7 miles off the Peniche on the Portuguese coast. The principal island in the group, Berlenga, is 1500 metres long by 800 metres wide and is formed from pink granite. This may date from a trip to Portugal which Bone made in 1926.

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Sir Muirhead Bone 1876-1953

Muirhead Bone was born in Glasgow, the son of a printer, and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He began printmaking in 1898 specialising in landscapes and scenes of urban architecture. In 1901 he moved to London and joined the New English Art Club. In 1916, on the advice of William Rothenstein he was appointed Britain?s first official war artist and visited the battlefield of the Somme, producing over 150 drawings of the war. After the war, he increasingly travelled and exhibiting in London and New York and achieving great success. He was knighted in 1937 and was again an official war artist in the Second World War.