The link also notes that Armfield attended the Birmingham School of Art, then a center of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Which helps to explain his style and perhaps his favored medium.
Below are some examples of his work, the first several dated to provide temporal context, the remainder undated, but their dates might be inferred from the appearance of the dated ones.
I don't find Armfield's paintings very attractive or interesting, but others did, because some are found in important collections.
He was around age 20 when he made this Arts-and-Crafts style painting.
One of his better-known works. Held by the Musée d'Orsay.
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Armfield and his wife were in the USA 1915-1922.
The two flapper-style women at the left-center are among the most representational details in this stiff, mannered painting.
I suppose the book cover might be of interest to certain cognoscenti.
This hints of the Pre-Raphaelites, as do some images above.
From around 1910, showing the either the Central Line or Bakerloo Line Underground station.
A poetic interpretation of the famous towered town.
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