Humphrey Waterfield was a British landscape gardener and artist. Educated at Eton College and Christchurch College, Oxford, he later studied at Ruskin College and the Slade School of Art. In 1933 Humphrey met Agnes 'Nancy' Dalrymple Tennant with whom he formed a lifelong affectionate but platonic relationship. From the mid-1930s they created a six-acre landscape garden called Hill Pasture in Essex, where he also had built a studio and house, designed by Ernö Goldfinger.
He is well known as an amateur garden designer, with Hill Pasture and the Clos du Peyronnet in Menton-Garavan, on the Cote D'Azur, being particularly celebrated. This painting depicts one of the architectural features of Hill Pasture, and was acquired in 1972 from a house sale organised by Waterfield's lifelong companion Nancy Tennant.
Eden's Keepers. The Lives & Gardens of Humphrey Waterfield and Nancy Tennant by Sarah Barclay was published in 2022.