Trees
Eardley Knollys (Alresford 1902 - 1991)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1975
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
578 x 750 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769738
Caption
Knollys was a critic, art dealer, and collector. He was also an accomplished artist, and although he was never part of any of the famous ‘groups’ of the time, he counted Picasso, Duncan Grant and Lady Ottoline Morrell amongst his friends, as well as several other Bloomsbury and Euston Road figures. He was also one time regional representative to the National Trust. Painting did not become a full-time pursuit until later years, when he moved out of Long Crichel, the Dorset home he had made with the critics Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Raymond Mortimer, and Eddie Sackville West, 5th Baron Sackville, and moved to Hampshire with the picture framer Mattei Radev. He painted still-lifes and landscapes in a style derived largely from the Bloomsbury painters, Post Impressionism, and Fauvism in particular. In an early catalogue he wrote: “I have always loved strong, bright colours – muddy ones seem to me symbols of gloom ….”
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Trees by Eardley Knollys (Alresford 1902 - 1991), 1975
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
Eardley Knollys (Alresford 1902 - 1991), artist