Portrait of Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

This oil painting shows Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo as an elderly man in 1936, when he was 85. It was painted by Haydn Reynolds Mackey a painter and illustrator who served as an Official War Artist during the First World War on the Western Front. He later became a more commercial artist and from the 1930s taught at the Walthamstow School of Art. He was involved with Mackmurdo and Frank Brangwyn in the plans to establish the William Morris Gallery during which this portrait was made.