Lieutenant Colonel Meares, British, late 19th century- View of Hamilton, Bermuda; oil on canvas, signed, inscribed and dated 'Lt Col. Meares' XX Regt. quarters / Hamilton - Bermuda / 1876' on the reverse, 33.2 x 48.4 cm. Provenance: The Geoffrey and Fay Elliott Collection. Note: Lt Colonel Meares was a British officer of the 20th Regiment, who spent some time serving in Bermuda. The present view show the lush Bermudan landscape with the artist's regiment quarters as the white building at centre left. Throughout careers that took them to London, New York and their adopted home of Bermuda, Geoffrey and Fay Elliott amassed an eclectic and diverse collection of art and antiques. Geoffrey's early career followed his father's footsteps into the Secret Service before moving into banking. During his semi-retirement he enjoyed exploring and documenting the life of his elusive father who spent much of the war in a Nazi prison camp. This led Geoffrey to start writing about his family and he went on to publish 'I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent' (1998) - about his father, 'Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War' (2002) - about his own experience, and 'From Siberia with Love: A Story of Exile, Revolution and Cigarettes' (2004) - about his grandparents. Collecting artefacts from their extensive travels became a lifelong passion for Geoffrey and Fay, one they enjoyed and shared together. Latterly, they donated some of this sizeable collection to The Bermuda National Archives, the Morgan Library in New York, Leeds University and the British Library.品相报告: Please refer to department for condition report