Michelham Priory

Details

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Michelham Priory
oil on canvas
36¼ x 28 in. (92.1 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1945.

Provenance

with Agnews, London.

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, catalogue not traced.

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Lot Essay

Michelham Priory at Upper Dicker in Sussex is a moated Augustinian priory, part-medieval and part-Elizabethan. Reflections in water was a favourite motif for V. Bell. This unusually accurate painting may have been a commission.

We are very grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing lots 102-111 and his catalogue entries for lots 102, 105-107 and 110-111.

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