* Philip Douglas Maclagan [1901-1972]- Cave at East Ogwell; Wood enclosed landscape,:- two, oils on board, each 24 x 31cm. [2] * Provenance. From the Estate of Philip Maclagan * Biography. Maclagan was born in South China and at age five came to Britain in 1906 with his parents and three siblings. In 1907 when his parents returned to China he was left in the care of his uncle in Berwick-on-Tweed. In 1920 he was accepted into The Royal Academy Schools where Glyn Philpot became a lifelong friend. His painting technique was based on the Venetian Old Masters' methods that was slow and laborious and from Philpot, and indeed George Clausen, he learnt to paint with wax, rather than pure oil medium to produced subtle and worthwhile results. He exhibited first in 1921 and then regularly until 1941, at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute and the New English Art Club. Maclagan stuck to his rather unfashionable principles and Britishness and while he tried to assimilate some of the qualities of Impressionism and Modern Painting, the major influences in his work were masters like Constable and Turner and his personal response to landscape and atmosphere.