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Anthony Baynes (British, 1921-2003), 'Greek Shepherd's Shelter', titled and inscribed and dated 'c1955' on Abbott and Holder gallery labels verso, watercolour and gouache, 22 x 24.5cm, frame 43 x 43cm, with another signed example depicting 4 landscapes in a window-like frame, signed lower right side in pencil, watercolour and gouache, 30 x 24cm, frame 49 x 41.5cm (2) Provenance: Antony Baynes. Thence by descent. Footnote: Anthony Baynes studied art at the Slade School of Art. Baynes studied under Professor Randolphe Schwabe, along with fellow students Kyffin Williams and Bernard Dunstan In 1946 his work 'The Betrayal' won the Mary Richgitz Prize. This painting is in the UCL Art Museum. After the war he taught art at the Badminton School and in 1949 went to Greece. Then in the 1950s he lived in Crete and held an exhbition in Athens in 1955 and later in London in 1958. He was an accomplished artist in both watercolour and oil and a designer of theatrical sets (eg for Sadler's Wells in the 1940s) and decorated furniture. Baynes was a noted dust jacket designer too from the 1950s to the 1970s, working for publishers John Murray Capes and Eyre and Spottiswoode. He painted murals at the Portsmouth Guildhall and the London Stock Exchange. Anthony Baynes was the cousin of the well known artist Keith Baynes (1877-1977), who studied at the Slade School of Art from1912 to 1914. After the war Keith Baynes became a member of the circle of Roger Fry He exhibited with the NEAC and with the London Group from 1919 and was friends with Bloomsbury Group members Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant He Exhibited at Agnew's amongst other galleries.