Sir Thomas Monnington: Landscape near Leyswood. 1940's - on Art WW I

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Sir Thomas Monnington:
Landscape near Leyswood. 1940's

Framed (ref: 4279)

Oil on panel, 9 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (25 x 40 cm.)

Tags: Sir Thomas Monnington oil panel landscape



Provenance: from the Artist's Estate

In a polished mahogony square section frame with ribbed gesso inner moulding

The landscape of the Leyswood Estate, near Groombridge, East Sussex,
where Monnington lived from the late 1940s, provided the subject matter for a number of his paintings. John Monnington, the artist’s son, recalls that, as the summer light began to dwindle, his father would wander out with his artist’s materials and paint a rapid impression of the surrounding landscape.
Sometimes these served as studies for fuller compositions, worked up in
the studio. This view is probably of Buckhurst Park, the seat of the Earl and
Countess De La Warr, which adjoined the Leyswood Estate.

We are grateful to John Monnington for assistance.


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