Watercolour and oil painter; etcher. Born at Hethersett, Norfolk, Reeve studied at the Norwich School of Art, at the Slade School under Philip Wilson Steer and Henry Tonks and at the Royal College of Art. He exhibited at the RA, NEAC, Goupil Gallery, RBA, LG and in the provinces. His pictures The Concrete Mixer and Unloading Timber are typical of the industrial scenes he favoured. He also worked abroad painting conventional landscapes, such as his picture of Cadaques, Port Algue, in Spain, illustrated in Artists’ Country, by C Geoffrey Holme and G S Sandilands. Reeve’s work is in many public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery and Imperial War Museum. A retrospective was held at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, 1992, and Piano Nobile Fine Paintings showed Selected Works, 1993.