Rodrigo Moynihan and Elinor Bellingham Smith
Rodrigo Moynihan, born 1910, first exhibited with the London Goup in 1932. He became the dominant figure in British painting after World War II, Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art from 1948-1957, RA in 1954 and CBE in 1973. His range of style and subjects was prodigious, each showing a different and dazzling ability; studio portraits including H.M.the Queen, Clement Attlee and Francis Bacon, beautifully drawn and observed landscapes, still lifes and famously, the objective abstractions inspired by Monet's Rouen Cathedral series.
Elinor Bellingham Smith, who died in 1988, was a leading British painter. She spent the last thirty years of her life in Bildeston in Suffolk and thus belongs to the great line of East Anglian landscape painters. Her paintings are sensitive and poetic, showing a sharp observation of the natural world - with which she was at one –and the atmospheric effects of the weather. Her work is in many distinguished public and private collections, including the Tate Gallery and Chatsworth. Elinor married Rodrigo in 1931.
Elinor and Rodrigo's paintings in this exhibition come from the collection of their son, John Moynihan.
