George Hamilton Constantine Watercolour ‘the Mussel Gatherers’

George Hamilton Constantine 1878-1967. Sheffield artist who studied at the Sheffield College of Art. In the 1939s he became assistant to Sir William Rothstein who was Professor of Civic Art at Sheffield University. Constantine became Director of the Graves Art Gallery in the 1950s. He exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Royal Academy. He did not need to exhibit his work widely as there was a steady demand for it from dealers in this country and New York’. The Mussel Gatherers’ signed watercolour inscribed with title. Image size 25 x 35 cms, framed size 45 x 54 cms.