Thomas Bond Walker (1861-1933) NEW FORGE ON THE LAGAN and VIEW OF BELFAST WITH HAYSTACKS IN THE FOREGROUND (A PAIR) the former signed lower right

Thomas Bond Walker (1861-1933) NEW FORGE ON THE LAGAN and VIEW OF BELFAST WITH HAYSTACKS IN THE FOREGROUND (A PAIR) the former signed lower right and with original inscribed label on reverse; the latter signed lower left oil on canvas laid on board; the other is oil on panel 28 by 38cm., 11 by 15in. each Label on reverse of first work reads: "New Forge on the Lagan / by T. B. Walker / 5 Donegall Sq. South". The second work has a landscape by the same hand on reverse depicting a woman on a path. Tom Bond Walker studied at the Royal College of Art, London, before marrying an Irish woman and moving to Belfast. There he was an active member of the Belfast Art Society, showing over two dozen works during the years 1892-96; he also exhibited once with the RHA in 1926. He was teacher and mentor to the young Paul Henry RHA, as well as father to painter David Bond Walker ( of whom see Snoddy, pages 684-685).