Joseph Southall (1861-1944) was a member of the multi-talented Birmingham Group  and a leading figure in the Tempera Revival. Several of his tempera paintings are  in the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. They often include well-dressed women wearing beautifully detailed garments - the very fine brushes used with tempera enable this. Southall also painted this carefully and sympathetically observed The Food Queue (undated, Gallery Oldham) which shows the impact of wartime rationing.