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Hampstead signed and dated 'PORTER / 1923' (lower right) oil on canvas (Dimensions: 63 x 53cm)

(63 x 53cm)

Footnote: Provenance Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, KCSI, CB With The Independent Gallery, London After studying under C.F. Goldie in his native Aukland, in Melbourne, and at the Académie Julien, Paris, Frederick James Porter settled in England where he spent the rest of his life. During the First World War, Porter worked as a draughtsman and designer for the British Government. He began exhibiting with the London Group from 1916, before being elected a member from 1921, and vice president from 1925 until 1935. He spent the last twenty years of his life as a tutor at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Although he enjoyed painting a variety of subjects, including still lives and nudes, Porter is principally remembered for his delicate, yet painterly, views of Sussex and Essex.

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