St Pancras Industrial Exhibition, bronze award medals (2), unsigned, named (H.W.A. Lawes, 1880; un-named, 1881), both 38mm (Allen Pt 3); Alexandra Palace Industrial Exhibition, 1881, a silver award medal by J.F. Wright, named (H.W.A. Lawes, 1881), 48mm (Allen Pt 2; cf. DNW 132, 1626) [3]. Very fine £50-70

Provenance: Harold Lawes, paternal grandfather of the wife of the vendor.

Harold William Allen Lawes (1865-1940), landscape painter from Primrose Hill, London, travelled extensively in the two decades prior to World War I, painting country scenes and landscapes. A precocious talent, he would have received these medals when only 15 and 16 years of age