The Old Mill, Fingest
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Old Mill, Fingest is a 1940 watercolor by Seabrooke, depicting Windmill, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a windmill with two big wooden arms sticking out. The mill sits next to a small wooden house with a slanted roof. The ground is covered in loose brushstrokes of blue, white, and orange—like wildflowers or brush. The artist used quick, sketchy strokes to show movement in the grass and sky. The windmill looks old but sturdy, with a dark dome on top. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
The watercolour *The Old Mill, Fingest* by Seabrooke, signed and dated 1940, depicts a windmill with broken sails in the village of Fingest. It is part of the *Recording Britain* collection, a wartime initiative funded by the Pilgrim Trust and administered by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime under the Ministry of Labour and National Service. The scheme, directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, aimed to document landscapes and buildings across England perceived as vulnerable to war damage or modern change, employing 97 artists to produce over 1,500 works between 1940 and 1943.
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This watercolor artist recorded the rolling hills and stone cottages of the Chilterns in the 1940s.
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