Thompson’s Gallery in Aldeburgh uses its annual Christmas exhibition to showcase works by historic artists such as John Maclauchlan Milne (1885-1957), whose oil on canvas The Hay Cole (1920), right, is offered for £6750.
Milne was encouraged to paint by his father, a Scottish landscape artist, and later drew inspiration from the Scottish Colourists and modern French painters. He fought in France on the Western Front during the First World War and stayed the for long periods from 1919-32.