Classic c1930s artist’s watercolour rendering drawn by P.D. Hepworth (signed (LL) for the motor showrooms at Purley designed by Nicholls & Hughes

Art Sz: 14″H x 20 1/4″W

Frame Sz: 21 1/2″H x 28″W

Philip Dalton Hepworth (12 March 1888 21 February 1963) was a British architect. He studied in both the UK and France, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and the cole des Beaux-Arts, and returned to work as an architect after serving in the First World War. He rose to prominence in the 1930s, featuring in a book by architectural critic Trystan Edwards and winning the commission in 1932 to design Walthamstow Town Hall, which was eventually completed in 1942. Another civic building of this period was Wiltshire County Hall at Trowbridge. He also designed a handful of private houses, including Pemberley, in Loughton, 1936. He lived in Zoffany House in Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, London, from 1936.