Known for detailed and evocative work, Lucien Davis was the artist who painted the London Hospital Children's Party in 1897 - the painting is still used as the Royal London Hospital's greetings' card illustration.

Lucien Davis exhibited at the RA & the RI [Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour] to which he was elected in 1893.

Reminiscent of a photograph this work is sophisticated with enormous detail having been paid to both the party goers and their clothes.

The original frame and mount were in poor condition and when I had it re-framed a note was found written on the back of the watercolour giving the title "Hunt the Slipper" and stating that it was painted in 1899 for the Illustrated London News. Davis was principal social artist for the ILN for 20 years.

If you look carefully the slipper can just be seen in the high resolution photograph. It is rather clearer in the original.