Spring Morning, Rolling and Ploughing

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Spring Morning, Rolling and Ploughing

Thomas Hennell (1903-1945)

Price

£2,250

Signed

Inscribed with title on reverse

Medium

Watercolour and pencil

Dimensions

12 ½ x 18 ¼ inches

Provenance

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

Exhibited

'Thomas Hennell: A Love of the Land', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2026

This has been identified as Ridley, Kent, by Dorothy Wishart.

'Hennell's friend (and later art executor) E. Owen Jennings ... said that while Hennell's work gives "an appearance of swiftness in execution, almost as though completed with one sweep of the brush across the paper", this "speed of handling" was only achieved because of "a lifelong love and study of nature" which the rural surroundings of Ridley engendered.'
Jessica Kilburn, Thomas Hennell. The Land and the Mind, London: Pimpernel Press, 2021, page 20

Mounted