Master of tempera Southall tempts with watercolours too
A leading member of the Birmingham Group and closely associated with the Arts & Crafts movement, Joseph Southall (1861-1944) is probably best known for tempera painting – the painstaking medieval technique he helped revive.
In 1997, one of Southall’s highly crafted tempura paintings, The Daughter of Herodias, sold at Sot…