§ Albert Ernest Kennedy (British, 1883-1963) Spaniels by a river with a red-necked phalarope signed 'A E Kennedy' (lower left) watercolour on paper 30 x 43cm Provenance: Acquired by Harry Bass, the art director of Tower Press, circa 1950, Thence by descent to the present owner, his daughter Footnote: Albert Ernest Kennedy (1883-1963) was a children's book illustrator and the elder brother of the well-known flower painter Cecil Kennedy (1905-1997). Tower Press was a British board game and puzzle company founded in the early 1930s. By the 1960s they were the largest jigsaw puzzle makers in the world. In 1969 the Leeds-based games manufacturer Waddingtons bought the business, probably with the aim of removing a competitor from the market. The following seven lots (1-7) are all original watercolours commissioned in the 1960s by the then art director of Tower Press, Harry Bass. They were most likely concept pieces intended to be made into jigsaw puzzles.