Watercolour of a city gate in a Belgium / Northern France town by Gertrude Massey (English, 1868-1957) Watercolour of a city gate in a Belgium / Northern France town by Gertrude Massey (English, 1868-1957). Signed in pencil bottom right “Gertrude Massey”. Provenance by family descent. Such drawings were English, circa early 1920
Between 1907 and 1934 Henry and Gertrude Massey ran the famous Heatherley’s School of Art. In the summers they would take students to Belgium and Northern France on “Sketching Tours”, this is one such sketch drawn on one of the tours. |