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This picture depicts a top-hatted 'Capitalist', a male worker and latter's distraught wife; industrial chimneys in background left; wooden crosses at the right.

The artist was known as 'The Painting Postman' and the 'London Postman artist'. He was employed at the East Central Office of the General Post Office (GPO) in London. He has paintings accepted and hung at the Royal Academy and was certainly active in 1912. In that year 12 of his pictures were in the exhibition of the GPO Arts Club at St Martin's Lane – Grand Old Post Office.