Victorian Hinton Ampner
Donald Chisholm Towner (Eastbourne 1903 - 1985)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1936
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
430 x 730 mm
Place of origin
Hampshire
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Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1530140
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Victorian Hinton Ampner by Donald Chisholm Towner (Eastbourne 1903 - 1985), England, 1936
Full description
Ralph Dutton described his childhood home at Hinton Ampner as an architectural ‘monstrosity’. When he remodelled the house in 1936, Ralph commissioned a series of paintings of the project by the artist Donald Chisholm Towner (1903-85), including this view, possibly for sentimental reasons. Towner (nephew of John Chisolm Towner whose money founded the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne) attended Eastbourne School of Art with fellow artist Eric Ravilious in 1920, and both went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London, Towner graduating with a Diploma in 1926. He established a studio in Hampstead and his first one-man exhibition was held at the Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, London in 1938. Towner was also a collector and historian of British ceramics, and his writings such as English Cream-Coloured Earthenware, London, Faber & Faber, 1957, may have influenced Ralph Dutton's own collection of ceramics.
Makers and roles
Donald Chisholm Towner (Eastbourne 1903 - 1985), publisher