SOLDDitchling Mill
Framed (ref: 10596)
Watercolour, traces of pencil
Signed, bottom right
9 3/4 x 12 3/12 in. (24.7 x 31.4 cm)
SOLDWatercolour, traces of pencil
Signed, bottom right
9 3/4 x 12 3/12 in. (24.7 x 31.4 cm)
Provenance: Peter Cornish Collection
Brangwyn's association with Ditchling dates to 1917. Having visited the Sussex Downs on a painting trip, he then bought a house there called 'The Jointure', where he established a studio, and lived until his death in 1954. The house had been given to Anne of Cleves as part of her divorce settlement and the legal term ‘jointure’ refers to lands jointly owned by husband and wife after a separation.
A photogravure after a very similar watercolour of this windmill was published in 1928, as one of 8 plates in the first portfolio in the series 'Famous Water-Colour Painters' from The Studio, London.
