• □ SIR MILES FLETCHER DE MONTMORENCY Bt., R.B.A. (1893-1963) A STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS AND A JUG

monogrammed & dated l.r. 28 oil on canvas 39.0 x 49.0 cm / 15 1/4 x 19 1/4 in

Miles de Montmorency was the 17th Baronet Morres, of Knockagh, Co. Tipperary, and husband of the stained glass designer and artist Rachel de Montmorency. He studied at the Dover School of Art, the Byam Shaw & Vicat Cole School of Art and finally the R.A. Schools. He worked primarily as a portrait painter after the Great War. His book A Short History of Painting in England was published in 1933 (J.M. Dent & Sons, London). He exhibited widely and was made the Honorary Librarian of the R.B.A. in the mid-1940's. He also produced a number of works which had been commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee. He was at one point Chairman of the Campden Hill Club, a society established by former Academy students in memory of Byam Shaw, under the presidency of George Clausen that staged exhibitions at Walker's Galleries in Mayfair.