Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 – 1993)
Design for fruit bowls
Watercolour and pencil
38 x 56 cm
Provenance: the artist’s studio sale.
With notes by the artist in pencil upper right.
Two richly-coloured fruit bowl designs by Hennes in watercolour, surrounded by various other bowl designs sketched in pencil.
Hilary Miller was born in London, where her father was a curator at the South London Art Gallery. She attended Blackheath High School and, from 1936 to 1940, studied at the Blackheath School of Art, and then for a further three years at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, she taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple lived in Oxford, where they both held teaching posts at the Oxford School of Art. Between 1948 and 1967 Miller frequently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London, and also illustrated a number of books on gardening and natural history, such as ‘The Living World’ and ‘Boff’s Book of Gardening’.
Condition: generally good.
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