Oil on canvas, 61.5 by 31.5 cm

Provenance: with Arthur Tooth & Sons, late 1930s

Wyndham made his home at Tickerage Mill near Uckfield in the early 1930s, adding a large Oriel window over its mill pond where he created a studio. He executed a slightly larger version of a similar composition in around 1939 which was presented by the Contemporary Art Society to Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in 1941 (acc.FA000329). Wyndham was represented by Arthur Tooth throughout the 1930s and was a notable landscape painter in the tradition of Paul Nash (another artist in the Arthur Tooth stable). Other distnguished owners of Tickerage Mill have included Lord Snowdon’s father Sir Ronald Armstrong-Jones and Vivien Leigh who moved to the mill in 1961 following her divorce from Laurence Olivier. Her ashes were scattered on the pond.