THE ORCHARD, RIDLEY

© The Artist's Estate

THE ORCHARD, RIDLEY n.d.

Thomas Hennell (1903 – 1945)

Details

Dimension
30.5 X 40 CM
Media
WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER
Accession number
P2715

Summary

Following a nervous breakdown Hennell was admitted to the Royal Maudsley Hospital, on his discharge he went to live at Orchard Cottage in Ridley in Kent; a country house surrounded by a well tended garden and a fine cherry orchard. Here he devoted himself, with a singleness of purpose, to his art, producing a series of drawings and watercolours which showed a gradually developing mastery of the media.