'Miguel Mackinlay's career got off to a good start in England once he had recovered his health following the horrors of WW1. In 1921, he began exhibiting with the New English Art Club, seen as a stepping stone to the Royal Academy, and with The London Group, a progressive co-operative dominated in the 1920s by Robert Fry, and the Bloomsbury Set who exhibited in Heal's new Mansard Gallery. This was a space on the fourth floor of the department store in Tottenham Court Road opened as a venue for artists.' (Introduction)