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George Hammond Steel: George Hammond Steel (1900-1960) was a painter of landscapes and coastal scenes in oil and watercolour.  He was born in Sheffield and studied at Sheffield School of Art, and later in Birmingham and London. Hammond Steel exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal West of England Academy, Glasgow Institute, Paris Salon, etc.  He is represented in a number of public collections.

Prior to World War II, Steel's work was highly accomplished yet consisted of rather conventional landscapes.  Subsequently, in the late 1940s and 1950s, he produced a body of work which is very different in execution and technique, and which is now prized by collectors.  He is most noted for his atmospheric paintings of coastal scenes, especially of Cornwall and East Anglia, his Essex cottage subjects, and Derbyshire landscapes.  The oils often have extensive sgraffito (scratching to the surface of the paint by the artist) and he employed a variety of glazes to good effect.