Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist, by whom gifted to
Mrs Phoebe D. Pool, thence by descent to
Anthony Blunt, thence by descent to
John Golding
With The Mayor Gallery, London, 12 January 1995, where acquired by
Lady Dugdale

Exhibited
University of London, The Slade School
London, New Burlington Galleries, British Painting 1925-1950: Second Anthology, June-July 1951, organised by Arts Council of Great Britain, cat.no.17 (as London Landscape); this exhibition travelled to Manchester, City Art Gallery, August-September 1951
London, South London Art Gallery, William Coldstream, organised by Arts Council of Great Britain, 27 April-26 May 1962, cat.no.45; this exhibition travelled to Leeds, University, 9 June-30 June, Bristol, City Art Gallery, 7 July-28 July, Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 4 August-25 August, Southampton, City Art Gallery, 1 September-22 September and Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, 29 September-20 October 1962

Literature
Bruce Laughton, William Coldstream, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, pp.144-7, fig.77 (ill.b&w.)
Peter Rumley, William Coldstream: Catalogue Raisonné, Samson & Company, Bristol, 2018, cat.no.93 (col.ill.)

'This is a study of Emmanuel Church, Lyncroft Road, from the kitchen window of 87 Marlborough Mansions, Cannon Hill, West Hampstead, where Coldstream was living with his parents and his sister Winnie. The covering of snow on the ground moved Coldstream to start painting this view on Wednesday 29 January 1947. It appears this oil sketch was painted in one session, for on Saturday, 1 February Coldstream started another painting of the church not on board but canvas.

As the snow still lay on the ground I felt some inclination to paint it.. I painted again on a canvas [that] I [had] on board looking out of the kitchen window.

This was the church where the funeral of Coldstream's father, Dr George Coldstream, was held on 16 December 1950.'

(Peter Rumley, William Coldstream: Catalogue Raisonné, Samson & Company, Bristol, 2018, p.81)