Details WILLIAM RATCLIFFE (BRITISH, 1870-1955)English landscapesigned W. Ratcliffe (lower left)pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour on buff tissue paper141⁄8 x 183⁄4 in. (36 x 47.5 cm.)Provenance The artist, by whom given to Stanley Parker, and by descent to the present owner.Special notice Artists Resale Right (Droit de Suite). Artists Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artists collection agent.Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.Conditions of SaleFAQsThis lot is offered by Christie Manson & Woods Ltd来源: Born in 1870, Ratcliffe was raised in Manchester and began studying practical design at Manchester School of Art. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts ethic, in 1894 Ratcliffe began working as a wallpaper designer before moving to London in 1901. However, it was only after his move in 1906 to Westholm Green in Letchworth Garden City that Ratcliffe began to fully dedicate himself to painting. Letchworth was the brainchild of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) and was home to numerous artists, including Harold Gilman (1876-1919), who Ratcliffe became close with. In the surroundings of the countryside and encouraged by Gilman, Ratcliffe shifted his focus from practical design to fine art, enrolling in the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 1910. Shortly after his enrolment, Ratcliffe was vouched for by Gilman to become a member of the Camden Town Group. In Ratcliffe’s obituary in The Times, he was praised for having ‘domesticated Post-Impressionism in England as Impressionism had been domesticated by the original members of the New England Art Club’ (The Times, 8 January 1955, p. 9).