SOLDLandscape near Leyswood. 1940's
Framed (ref: 4279)
Oil on panel, 9 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (25 x 40 cm.)
SOLDOil on panel, 9 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (25 x 40 cm.)
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.
