Trees by the Water
Oil painting on board depicting trees by the water by Miles de Montmorency.
Serene landscape with a body of water in the foreground. The water reflects the scenery above it, including trees, sky, and clouds. The impressionistic and visible brush strokes in greens, browns and blues. This painting is in the verso of a thin wood panel.
Thin wood panel
Artist Biography
Miles Fletcher de Montmorency (1893–1963) Miles de Montmorency was a British painter and the 17th Baronet Morres of Knockagh, County Tipperary. Son of Hervey Lodge de Montmorency and husband of stained glass artist Rachel de Montmorency, he studied at Dover School of Art, the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art, and the Royal Academy Schools. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and with war artists, and was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1935, later serving as its honorary librarian. He authored A Short History of Painting in England.
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