Reginald Mills was a portrait, landscape and coastal painter. He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Watercolors from 1921 to 1938. The recently deceased American real estate tycoon Marshall Coyne, who, amongst his many properties, owned the Madison Hotel in Washington DC, was an astute art collector, and an admirer of Reginald Mills’ works. Coyne owned Mills’ series of equestrian paintings featuring the Royal Horse Guards. These were permanently on display at the Madison Hotel during Coyne’s lifetime.
‘The Falstaff Inn, Canterbury’ is a fine example of Reginald Mills’ skill as a Victorian genre painter. Amazingly, the Falstaff Inn, a 15th Century hotel, is still in existence as a functioming hotel today. It is located at 8-10 St. Dunstan’s Street, Canterbury, Kent, in England.