Floral Still Life Oil Painting by Hermione Hammond 1910-2005

A typically bold oil on artist’s board painting by Hermione Hammond of a vase of flowers. The work is in thick impasto oils and the vase is strikingly set against a mauve background. The work is signed and dated 1940. The painting is mounted in a very good quality period gilt frame most likely the original. The painting has been professionally cleaned and the whole is in excellent ready to hang condition.

Hermione Hammond (11 August 1910 – 29 July 2005) was an English painter who is most famous for her paintings of London damaged by the Blitz during World War II.

Born in Hexham, Northumberland, to an artist mother and an invalid father. She attended the Francis Holland School in London (one of her schoolmates was actress Joyce Grenfell). She went on to study art at the Chelsea Polytechnic, then at the Royal Academy Schools, under Walter Russell and Tom Monnington. She learned mural decoration at the Royal College of Art and attended night classes in etching.

She supported herself by winning prizes and doing odd jobs. One such job was the altarpiece in the ecumenical chapel of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, another was the altarpiece at Marlborough House School, Tenterden. After winning the competition to decorate the ceiling of the new Senate House of London University in 1937 she gained a Rome Scholarship in 1938, but her studies there were cut short by the outbreak of war. With an added sense of urgency, she absorbed all she could of the Italian Renaissance in Rome, Florence, Arezzo and Ravenna.

In 1949 resumed her professional career which continued until the 1990s. She died, aged 94, in 2005.

This work is from her most famous period of painting right after the war and while not of the blitz damage she is most famous for it is still an interesting work and highly decorative.

overall sizes in inches including frame: 20 by 17 1/2

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