Under the Light: Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Bt

Draw the handle slowly down the canvas. The painting yields its secrets one at a time — the architecture of its light, the bones of its drawing, the true colour beneath the varnish — until it loosens into the very pigment it was built from, then settles back into stillness.

Buy Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Bt as a hand-painted oil painting on linen