William Douglas Macleod was born in Glasgow Scotland in 1892. He worked in a bank and served in the First World War, enrolling at the Glasgow School of Art after the cessation of hostilities. On graduation in 1923, he began painting Scottish and European landscapes as well as producing many fine art etchings in Spain and North Africa of which this present one is a good example. Returning to Glasgow William worked as an illustrator for the Glasgow Evening News and produces a number of floral still-lifes in pastel.