26 x 30 in. (66 x 76.2 cm)

 Literature: Charles Cundall - A Working Method, Edited by Sacha Llewellyn & Paul Liss, published by Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, February 2016. 

 According to Jackie Setter, 'In the years after the war my father was commissioned to do a lot of industrial paintings, and he was skilled at finding a good subject to paint, from what seemed initially to be rather unpromising buildings'. 'One enterprise that especially interested Cundall in the post-war years was the industrial genre of which he had produced some earlier examples. The factory, the blast furnace, the steel mill were for him an interesting variety of landscape which he approached in the same way as any other composition. He found of great value the discipline involved in making pictures out of subjects that many painters were inclined to regards as outside the scope of art. He was fortunate also in having a patron in Harold Peake, who admired his work in several aspects and was also convinced of the uses of a pictorial view of industry. .... As chairman of the Stell Company of wales, Mr Peake was able to propose that the artist should paint views of the vast undertakings that had grown up at the industrial centre of Port Talbot in Glamoranshire.....'