![Albert Henry Collings - The Goldfish Bowl [c.1907]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3890/14400615431_ae288480e8_o.jpg)
Albert Henry Collings (1858 - 1947) was a successful portrait painter, most notably commissioned to paint King George VI in his coronation robes. He was a member of both the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Royal Society of British Artists and exhibited at the Royal Academy. He executed a number of exotic, neo-classical nudes, such as The Tiger Skin, comparable to the present. The model for The Fish Bowl was a doctor's daughter, and caused a mild scandal within the family. The work formerly hung in a car salesroom, E. H. Services, off Oxford Street.
[Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 117 cm]