This section includes a small selection of his work

What follows are some examples of Ronald Gray’s work over his lifetime. He painted mainly in water colours and felt that his oil painting skills were the weaker of his skills. Yet the most awarded painting of his is the oil painting of his Mother below.

‘My Mother’ painted by Gray in 1908 and purchased for the Tate Gallery under the Chantrey Bequest in 1925.

The letter below in Gray’s collection is from his old teacher Professor Fred Brown, whom Gray first encountered in about 1885 as headmaster of the Westminster School of Art and later Slade Professor of Art. Not unsurprisingly Gray was very proud of this letter.

Dr Normand MacLaurin, Chancellor of Sydney University, painted by Gray in Sydney, Australia in November 1901. The portrait is reproduced with permission of the University Art Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, the the University of Sydney.

This water colour is titled ‘For Marjory from Uncle Ronald’. Marjory is Fred and Jane Pegram’s daughter and inheritor of his papers.

Two wartime paintings ‘Cannon Street anti-aircraft gun’ and ‘King’s Cross anti-aircraft gun’ by permission of the Imperial War Museum.

Metropolitan Observation Room ©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive

1939 Painting by Gray of the preparations for war outside the Charterhouse. From the Charterhouse scrapbook.

One of his last paintings of High Ham in 1945 by permission of the Charterhouse.