Original watercolour ‘Dover’ by Charles Cheston RWS.1889-1960. Signed. This may be the painting by Cheston exhibited at the RA in 1936 titled Dover and hung in the South rooms.

Quality watercolour of the town of Dover and the port. Signed. Circa 1936

Charles Sidney Cheston (b. London 1882 – d. Polstead, near Colchester, Essex, UK 1960) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1899–1902. He exhibited widely, including at the RA, RHA, Goupil Gallery, RWS, Fine Art Society and NEAC. His first one-man show was held at Colnaghi’s in 1929, the year his artist wife Evelyn Cheston died. He published a monograph Evelyn Cheston: Member of the New English Art Club 1908–1929, in 1931. Cheston was made a vice-president of the RWS in 1950.

In 1936 he exhibited a painting at the Royal Academy No. 984 titled ‘Dover’. It was hung in the South rooms and listed as a watercolour. This may be the exhibited but incomplete evidence at present.