Topaz, Christmas 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) [PRINT]:Framed Print 317 x 267mm / 12.5 x 10.5 inches (Silver) illustrated so beautifully here amongst

illustrated so beautifully here amongst all of the lush flora and rugged landscape

The clear water lapping at the rock slabs merges with the azure blue of the lake against a small rock island

3 inches (Inner Print: 85 x 210mm / 3

Framed - 382 x 482mm / 15 x 19 inches (Inner Print: 222 x 306mm / 8

17x5cm or 22

Topaz, Christmas 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) [PRINT]:Framed Print 317 x 267mm / 12.5 x 10.5 inches (Silver) illustrated so beautifully here amongstOphelias mother Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell is usually referred to as a society animal painter. She was one of three sisters from a London family; Dorothea, who owned the house in St. Johns Wood where Ophelia grew up, also had a large property on the outskirts of Windermere, hence the Lake District connection. There is a reference to Winifred in Heaton Coopers autobiography Mountain Painter in which he notes that she was "a painter of animals,