Landlord and Tenants

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This picture depicts a top-hatted 'Capitalist', a male worker and latter's distraught wife; industrial chimneys in background left; wooden crosses at the right.

The artist was known as 'The Painting Postman' and the 'London Postman artist'. He was employed at the East Central Office of the General Post Office (GPO) in London. He has paintings accepted and hung at the Royal Academy and was certainly active in 1912. In that year 12 of his pictures were in the exhibition of the GPO Arts Club at St Martin's Lane – Grand Old Post Office.

People's History Museum

Manchester

Title

Landlord and Tenants

Date

c.1920s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 112 x W 87 cm

Accession number

NMLH.2011.1

Acquisition method

gift from Mr Andrew Wood, 2011

Work type

Painting

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