Derek Hill (1916-2000)
Henry Inlander (Vienna 1925 - London 1983)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1953
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
820 x 650 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769717
Caption
Henry Inlander was a landscape painter who settled in England in 1938. He studied at the Slade under Coldstream, Rogers, Pasmore and Gowing. Derek Hill’s art collection was presented to Mottisfont through the National Art Collections Fund. He was best known in Britain as a portrait painter, but is now more famous for the wild landscapes produced in his adopted home of Ireland. He started off studying stage design in Munich, Paris and Vienna (1933-5), and for a time worked under Karl Schwitters. By 1938 he had abandoned the idea of stage design and began to paint. He painted the portraits of a huge cast of characters, including Bernard Berenson, Lord Mountbatten, Isaiah Berlin, John Betjeman, and Noël Coward, amongst many others. Hill's landscapes, by contrast, are lonely and seldom peopled.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Derek Hill (1916-2000) by Henry Inlander (Vienna 1925 - London 1963), 1953
Provenance
Presented by Derek Hill (1916 - 2000) through The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund), 1996
Credit line
Mottisfont Abbey,The Derek Hill Collection (presented to the National Trust through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1996)
Makers and roles
Henry Inlander (Vienna 1925 - London 1983), artist