Topaz, Christmas 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) [PRINT]:Framed Print 317 x 267mm / 12.5 x 10.5 inches (Silver) The clear water lapping at

The clear water lapping at the rock slabs merges with the azure blue of the lake against a small rock island

when there are broad simple shapes of lights and shadows in the distance

intimate craggy fells in between

and a beauty and grandeur of outline in the surrounding fells

17x5cm or 22

Topaz, Christmas 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) [PRINT]:Framed Print 317 x 267mm / 12.5 x 10.5 inches (Silver) The clear water lapping atOphelias mother Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell is usually referred to as a society animal painter. She was one of three sisters from a London family; Dorothea, who owned the house in St. Johns Wood where Ophelia grew up, also had a large property on the outskirts of Windermere, hence the Lake District connection. There is a reference to Winifred in Heaton Coopers autobiography Mountain Painter in which he notes that she was "a painter of animals,