See note to lot 100

The present work depicts Mornington Crescent from another viewpoint to that of lot 100 and the Camden Theatre and the liver-coloured tiles of the Tube Station can just be glimpsed through the leaves of the trees in the central gardens. The edge of the window frame is visible to the left of the composition. This viewpoint is closer to that of 'Mornington Crescent', in the collection of the British Council, which looks across the gardens onto the Tube Station. The communal gardens no longer exist and are now occupied by a building originally erected in 1926 for the Carreras cigarette factory
(See W. Baron, The Camden Town Group, London, 1979, p.239)

Thomas Geoffrey Blackwell, O.B.E. (1884-1943) was Chairman of Crosse and Blackwell Ltd. and a Director of the company from 1905. He was a great patron of the Arts, the local representative of the National Art Collections Fund and an unofficial member of the New English Art Club. He was a close friend of Philip Wilson Steer and a patron of many artists, including John Singer Sargent