An unframed and unsigned (From a collection of other signed works by the artist) watercolour on paper of a Kent scene with Oast house in England by the famous London artist Herbert Charles Touseau Ahier -born 1888 died 1976 - now highly admired and collected
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He established himself before the First W orld War as an illustrator and specialist in images of ships. After that war, he worked as a commercial artist, and occasional illustrator, for J M Dent & Sons, revealing a talent for a wider range of imagery. He extended this talent, in later life, in producing pleasing traditional landscape watercolours.
Herbert Ahier was born in Mile End, East London, on 23 December 1888. His father’s family had possibly settled there from Jersey. By 1901, he was living with his widowed grandmother, Eliza Phillipps Ahier (née Cross), at 38 Antill Road.
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