The Bobbin Mill Ambleside II

Details

Peter Rees Roberts (b. 1923)
The Bobbin Mill Ambleside II
signed and dated 'Rees Roberts '42' (lower right)
tempera on board
30½ x 59¾ in. (78 x 152 cm.)

Exhibited

London, England & Co., Three Generations, June - July 1989. no. 14.

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Lot Essay

The Royal College of Art moved to Ambleside for the duration of the War, and the present work was painted when Rees Roberts was a student at the R.C.A., studying mural painting. It depicts workers creating the wooden bobbins vital to the spinning and weaving industries of Lancashire.

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