Lot Number 175

Reginald Mills and Two other Original Paintings. Rural farming and village scenes. All signed in bottom corners. Widest frame is 50cm. (3) Reginald Mills (1896-1951). Mills was a portrait, landscape and coastal painter based in Hamstead London. Mills became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1930 and regularly exhibited with that society and at the Royal Academy. Before the World War II he illustrated a number of childrens books but at the outbreak of war joined the Auxiliary Fire Service and as an active member of a fire fighting crew made a series of dramatic paintings recording the London Blitz. He also illustrated a number of books on the subject: ''Londons House: As Seen Through the Eyes of the Fire Fighters'', 1942 and ''In the Service of the Nation: The N.F.S. Goes into Action'', 1944. A number of his paintings are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. Exhibited: Royal Academy 8, Royal Society of British Artists 31, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 2.