JOSEPH SOUTHALL (1861-1944) 'LAGO DI GARDA' signed by monogram and dated '1921' l.r.; bears provenance on a label on the backboard watercolour 12cm x 18; 4 3/4in x 7 Provenance Purchased from the artist by John Drinkwater and thence by descent Southall was born in Nottingham, the son of a grocer, and was from a distinguished Quaker family. When he was 17 he worked for a architectural partnership in Birmingham and left to pursue his studies in painting and carving; travelling extensively around Europe. Southall was leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera. He was a lifelong Quaker and was an active socialist and pacifist, initially as a radical member the Liberal Party and later of the Independent Labour Party. He became President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1939 and stayed in this post until his death in 1944.