Property from an English Collection

HENRY WOODS, R.A. (BRITISH 1846 - 1921)
Serra Valle
signed, titled and dated Henry Woods / Serra Valle / 1904 (lower right)
oil on canvas
33 x 26 cm (13 x 10 1/2 in)

PROVENANCE:
M. Newman Ltd, London

EXHIBITED:
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1922

After studying in his native Warrington, Lancashire, and then at the South Kensington Schools, Woods worked first as an illustrator for The Graphic and other magazines. He began to exhibit at the Royal Academy from 1869 onwards, and in 1876, at the suggestion of his brother-in-law, the painter Sir Luke Fildes, he visited Venice. The city enthralled him, and in the 1880s he moved there permanently, regularly sending Italian scenes to London for exhibition.