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Steven Campbell was one of the 'New Glasgow Boys' who rose to international fame in the early 1980s. His theatrically staged paintings depict a shifting cast of characters navigating absurd and perplexing situations. The tweed-clad man with hunting paraphernalia depicted here frequently appeared in his work from the early 1980s, when Campbell was living in New York City. The archetypal British gentleman is endowed with all the eccentricity and ridiculousness of a character from a P. G. Wodehouse novel, making a mockery of an outdated, gentrified society to which Campbell, as an ex-steelworker from Glasgow, had no part. The work evokes the feeling of chaos Britain experienced as Margaret Thatcher entered her second term as prime minister and unemployment soared to record levels.