This is a late, atmospheric and poetic painting. Clausen never lost his affinity with rural life, and  in the 1930s, in his eighties, ‘The measured tones of sunrise gave way to dramatic contrasts of colour and light and shade.’ (Kenneth McConkey, catalogue to the exhibition Sir George Clausen, R.A., Bradford Art Gallery, 1980, p. 107, No 156). Clausen often painted the countryside of North Essex, near Duton Hill where he kept a house (contiguous with the landscape so powerfully caught by the BBC series Detectorists).