Victor Coverley-Price was a painter, writer and diplomat who was conversant in several languages. As a diplomat, he was frequently in Germany, but also in the Middle East, South Africa, Canada, South America and Kashmir with the Diplomatic Service. In addition, he was enthusiastic about mountain climbing. In 1932 after an expedition in the Peruvian Andes, the conductor discoverer Professor John Walter Gregory drowned, after their canoes had capsized, although Coverley-Price survived the disaster. Coverley-Price’s work High Endeavour also shows a mountaineer. The watercolor in grisaille technique (35 x 21 cm) was used as an illustration for his book “An Artist Among Mountains”.
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