"Untitled: Big Ben Street View, London", signed lower left, oil on board, 5 1/2 x 4 3/4in

 

Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, Canadian, 1846-1923, perhaps best known as a landscape painter of the Rocky Mountains, his street scenes of Victorian-era England and Canada are among his finest works and prized by collectors; this is an exceptional impressionistic oil depicting two figures in the foreground with Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster, London, England in the distance