Nigel Ramsey Newton - Autumn Day c 1960 by Mid-Century Modern Alternatives

Born in 1903, Newton studied painting at St John’s Wood School of Art and thence Royal Academy Schools, 1922–3. Newton moved to France and then to Ireland, where he gained commissions and painted with his friend, the highly regarded Ronald Ossory Dunlop. There were further travels to America, where commissions included a painting of the Rockefeller family house in Pocantico Hills, Westchester County, and the West Indies. Back in England in the late 1930s. Newton died in 1976 aged seventy three.