Richard Ellis Naish (1912 - 1988)
The Old Stove
Oil on canvas
30 x 20 inches
£2,200
Naish was a devout and active Quaker from York, who joined the Royal College of Art in 1932. He painted ‘directly’ (without sketching first) homely subjects around Lewknor in Oxfordshire where he lived, and exhibited mainly at the New English Art Club.