'The War Parrot': Dawn on the Suez canal

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Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871-1958)
'The War Parrot': Dawn on the Suez canal
signed and inscribed 'The "WAR PARROT" Dawn on the Suez Canal Hugh Johnston Douglas 31 ...' (on an old label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24¼ x 36¼ in. (61.6 x 92.1 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Trained in Antwerp, Paris and at the Slade, Johnstone Douglas had by the 1890s established a reputation as a painter of society portraits. During the First World War he was employed as a painter of 'dazzle ships': the largest single body of his work is now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, London.

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