Lot 604: Sir Charles John Holmes, British 1868-1936- "The

Sir Charles John Holmes, British 1868-1936- "The Castle Waters"; oil on canvas, signed indistinctly and dated 1925, 51x61cm Provenance: with the New English Art Club, Spring Gardens Gallery W1, Spring/Summer 1926 where purchased for ú126, the original receipt accompanies this lot. Note: In 1900 Holmes began exhibiting with the NEAC, he began co-editor of the Burlington Magazine in 1903 and then took up a position of Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford. In 1909 he became director of the National Portrait Gallery a position he held until 1916 when he moved to become director of the National Gallery. He was knighted in 1921.