Urbino, Italy

John Arthur Malcolm Aldridge R.A. 1905-1983, was an English watercolor and oil painter, designer and art teacher. He visited Northern Italy during the summer holidays for many years, this landscape had been drawn and painted several times over an unknown number of years. Clearly a favourite landscape within easy distance of his accommodation around the area of Urbino. In England he lived in Great Bardfield where several artists lived as a small gathering of fairly distinguished painters all of whom are represented in the Fry Gallery Essex. He was a plein-air painter who would finish his works in the studio as this picture would almost certainly have been.