Property from an English Collection HENRY WOODS, R.A. (BRITISH 1846 - 1921) Serra Valle signed, titled and dated Henry Woods / Serra Valle / 1904 (lower right) oil on canvas 33 x 26 cm (13 x 10 1/2 in) PROVENANCE: M.Newman Ltd, London EXHIBITED: London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1922 After studying in his native Warrington, Lancashire, and then at the South Kensington Schools, Woods worked first as an illustrator for The Graphic and other magazines. He began to exhibit at the Royal Academy from 1869 onwards, and in 1876, at the suggestion of his brother-in-law, the painter Sir Luke Fildes, he visited Venice. The city enthralled him, and in the 1880s he moved there permanently, regularly sending Venetian scenes to London for exhibition.