Lot 4379: Donald Maxwell - "Free Trade and Protection".

A watercolour, heightened with white, with ship silhouettes and waves accentuated with black pen. Titled, signed, and dated "Donald Maxwell 1917" at the lower right and mounted on cardboard (gold edges). Light cruiser in the foreground escorting merchant ships. Dimensions 37 x 26 cm. The British painter and illustrator, Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) was an official war artist of the British Admiralty during the First World War, and received his training at the Royal College of Art.

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