Signed, this oil by Edward Harrison Compton (1881–1960) shows the Jungfrau Massif seen from below Männlichen, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. Published in Peaks & Glaciers 2019, p. 10.

Referred to as E.H. (Edward Harrison) to distinguish him from his father, Edward Theodore, this Compton was also a peintre-alpiniste. He was his father's only pupil, and family diaries document an extraordinary number of climbing and sketching trips together. E.H. excelled at watercolours, a medium in which he seems closest to his father's work, but his oil paintings were executed in a looser, more painterly style.

Collectors of the Compton family – father and son – and of Jungfrau/Männlichen Bernese Oberland views will find this a substantial oil example of E.H. Compton's work, complementing the other pieces by both generations of the family already in this collection.