ARLINGTON GALLERY
The Arlington Gallery was owned and managed by Lucy Winifred Macdonald (1872-4 January 1951) and opened in 1923 at 22 Old Bond Street in London's West End. Lucy Winifred Macdonald, née Cary, originally a music teacher, she married at Hammersmith on 27 Oct 1898, Scottish watercolourist William Alister Macdonald (1861-1956), who in 1923 went to live in New Zealand. Lucy was a member and from 1918, secretary of Royal Society of Miniature Painters and in 1921 an artist living on her own account with her uncle at 6 Penywern Road, Earl's Court and had her studio at Studio, 283 Fulham Road, S.W. 10. The gallery specialised in lesser-known artists who found difficulty in getting shows at the bigger galleries. Regular exhibitors included the Royal Society of Miniature Painters who showed most years from the mid-1920s until the Gallery's closure. They also exhibited artists associated with textiles, glass, jewellery, tapestry and metalwork. The gallery closed in 1941 following bomb damage during the Second World War.