A Mill at Braintree
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Mill at Braintree is a 1940 watercolor by Walter Bayes, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour by Walter Bayes depicts a water mill on the River Blackwater at Braintree, Essex. The mill shows signs of neglect, with the mill-pool overgrown by waterweed. The work was created in 1940 as part of the Recording Britain scheme, which employed artists to document the British landscape during the Second World War. The collection was funded by the Pilgrim Trust and administered by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime.
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Walter John Bayes was an English painter and illustrator who was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and the London Group and also a renowned art teacher and critic.
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