Walking with the Ancestors - Cecil Lawson

Cecil Lawson

Regarded by many of his contemporaries as one of the leading modern British landscape artists of the late 19th Century, Cecil Gordon Lawson was born in Wellington on December 3rd 1849. During his lifetime, Lawson's bold and innovative style gained favourable comparisons with greats such as Turner, Constable and Gainsborough, before illness tragically intervened and ended his career at the age of just 32.