Sir Thomas Monnington:
Baptism, circa 1924
Framed (ref: 1052)
Inscribed
pencil and brown ink on tracing paper, 6 in. sq. (15.1 cm. sq.)

Tags: Sir Thomas Monnington ink pencil landscape religion Quattrocenta RELIGION Works in Progress

Provenance: The Artists Family

In a black receeding frame with gilded knull
This compostion is clearly indebted to Piero della Francesca�s Baptism of Christ (1450s, National Gallery, London).  The National Gallery Baptism had a special significance for Monnington - it was, he later recalled, on first seeing this work  as a young teenager, that he decided his vocation was to be an artist.