Chris Beetles Gallery

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Ablutions

Thomas Hennell (1903-1945)

Price

£1,250

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

12 x 11 inches

Provenance

Michael MacLeod (Hennell biographer) via the Estate of Thomas Hennell

Exhibited

'Chris Beetles Summer Show', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 2012, no 45;
Royal Society of Watercolour Painters, Spring Exhibition, London, 2014;
'Thomas Hennell: A Love of the Land', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2026

As an Official War Artist, Hennell was deployed for three month attachments. From June-September 1944 he was in Normandy on the beaches immediately after the allied landings and in the villages between there and Caen. From September-December 1944 he was with the First Canadian Army, as they cleared the German-occupied Channel coast to the east of the Normandy landings, from Rouen to Dunkirk.

Mounted

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