Topaz, Christmas 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) [PRINT]:Framed Print 317 x 267mm / 12.5 x 10.5 inches (Silver) and a beauty and grandeur

and a beauty and grandeur of outline in the surrounding fells

when there are broad simple shapes of lights and shadows in the distance

editors and photographers have returned time and again to all corners of northern Europe for insights

more than any fell

Topaz, Christmas 1953 by W J Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973) [PRINT]:Framed Print 317 x 267mm / 12.5 x 10.5 inches (Silver) and a beauty and grandeurOphelias 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,