Lot 220: Harold Steggles , 1911-1971 warner street, london EC1 oil on board

signed l.l.: H.STEGGLES ; further inscribed with the title and signed on the reverse: WARNER STREET. E.C./ H.STEGGLES. oil on board

24.5 by 32 cm.; 9 ¾ by 12 ½ in.

Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, where bought by Sir David Scott, 7 May 1931 for £8.8.0

Warner Street is in Clerkenwell, north London between Rosebery Avenue and Farringdon Road. The viaduct shown in the present picture carries Rosebery Avenue towards Finsbury. The doorway of the Red Lion public house is shown in the foreground. Steggles captured the character of this part of the city with its elegant Georgian houses nestling between nineteenth century shops and warehouses.