Harold Gilman (British 1876-1919) Romney Marsh, circa 1910 signed (lower right), oil on board (25cm x 35.5cm (9 3/4in x 14in)) Provenance: Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London; Frank Aldous Girling, Lawford, Essex; Robert Alexander and Natalie Bevan, Boxted House, Boxted, Essex. Exhibited: Tate Britain, London, Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, 13 February - 4 May 2008, p. 154, no. 82 (illustrated). Harold Gilman was born in Rode, Somerset. In 1890 he moved with his family to Romney Marsh, Kent, where he lived until 1908. He trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and, after meeting Walter Sickert in 1907, became a founder member of the Fitzroy Street, Camden Town and London Groups. Robert Upstone has explained about this work: 'Gilman made a sequence of studies of Romney Marsh between about 1909 and 1912...The landscape is expressed by strictly modulating the paint in a series of broken dabs of heightened colour that lend it visual interest and these touches of paint also suit perfectly the scrubby terrain's character. Painted on board, it is just possible that Gilman painted this before the subject, although his usual practice was to work from drawings. The picture was acquired by Gilman's fellow Camden Town painter Robert Bevan.' (Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, op.cit, p.154)