All Saints Church, from the Meadows, Sudbury
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
All Saints Church, from the Meadows, Sudbury is a 1940 watercolor by Rowland Suddaby, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour shows Sudbury’s All Saints Church rising from green meadows. Rowland Suddaby painted it between 1940 and 1942. The scene was part of a national project called Recording Britain. The artist grew up in Sudbury and later moved back. He even ran the local Gainsborough House after the war. His love for Thomas Gainsborough’s landscapes shows in this quiet view. Look up the artist Suddaby, Rowland next.
A watercolour by Rowland Suddaby from 1940 depicts All Saints Church in Sudbury, seen across a water meadow. The church tower rises above surrounding houses, with a grove of tall trees positioned to the right. This work was one of three Sudbury views created for the Recording Britain project, which employed artists to document British landscapes during the Second World War. Suddaby later settled in Sudbury and became curator of Gainsborough House.
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Rowland Suddaby (1912–1972) was a British artist and illustrator.
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