Algernon Newton (British 1880-1968)/After a Storm, Chepstow Place, Notting Hill, London/inscribed on the stretcher in pencil/oil on canvas, 63cm x 90cm/Provenance: Lady Beauchamp, wife of the 7th Earl and daughter of The Earl of Grosvenor; by direct descent to the present owner/Note: The Beauchamp/Lygon family were the inspiration to Evelyn Waugh for Lord Marchmain and Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. Algernon Newton was born in 1880 into the family that made Windsor & Newton paint. He left Cambridge without a degree to study art and after many years of struggle he finally received recognition in the 1920s. His paintings sold well and he was elected to the Royal Academy of Art. Sadly after his death there were no retrospective exhibitions until recently when Daniel Katz held a loan exhibition in his London gallery.