Walter Dendy Sadler

At age 16 he decided to become a painter and enrolled for two years at Heatherly's School of Art in London, subsequently studying in Germany under Burfield and Wilhelm Simmler.

He painted contemporary people in domestic and daily life pursuits, showing them with comical expressions illustrating their greed, stupidity etc.

His subjects were usually set in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries with sentimental, romantic and humorous themes.

Before painting a scene he would create elaborate settings in which local villagers would often pose as models.

The home, the inn, the lawyers office, the garden and the golf course all provide subjects for his wit and clever social observation.