Bevan (Robert Polhill)

, , 1924.
This scene depicts the church of St John the Evangelist, on Waterloo Road in London, viewed from under a railway arch. It was based on an oil painting of the subject he did around 1922, which is since lost.

Robert Bevan (1865-1925) was born in Hove and raised in rural Sussex. After training at the Westminster School of Art and then the Académie Julien in Paris, Bevan spent time at Pont Aven in Brittany, where he met Paul Gauguin. He went on to be a member of several London groups of artists, including the Camden Town group. He was a keen horseman, often featuring horses in his work.

Provenance: ex-collection of Mattei Radev (1927-2009), inherited from Eardley Knollys (1902-1991), artist, critic, and art dealer, member of the Bloomsbury Group, who purchased it from the Maltzahn Gallery, Cork Street, London, November 1968..
295 by 350mm (11½ by 13¾ inches).