Study for Brockley Gardens pencil 33.5 x 39cm Footnote: Provenance Gifted by the artist to Mollie Elkin, the artist's niece, and by descent On November 1 st , 1895, Walter David Jones, now known as David Jones, was born on Arabin Road, Brockley, Kent. Now enveloped by greater London, at the time of Jones’ birth, Brockley was regarded as little more than an agricultural hamlet. During his childhood, living on nearby Howson Road, Jones witnessed Brockley shed its skin and begin to grow into a suburb; open fields, previously speckled sparsely with individual dwellings, became narrow streets occupied by families. In 1927, after having lived and worked in Sussex and at various locations across London, Jones returned, as he often did, to live with his parents at his childhood home at Howson Road. Whilst living with his parents, Jones produced several studies of suburban views from his windows, culminating in his most complete and well-known works of the same subject Brockley Gardens, Summer (1925) and Brockley in April (1926).