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East End Farm, Ditchling.

 

A beautifully expressive early 20th century Sussex landscape by Ethel Louise Rawlins (British, born 1880).

 

Painted in confident impasto brushwork, the scene captures a quiet rural moment, a still pond reflecting the surrounding trees, a farm building beyond and the soft undulating landscape typical of the South Downs.

 

Rawlins trained at the Slade School of Art and worked within the tradition of British plein-air painting associated with the Newlyn School, exhibiting widely including the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Society of British Artists and the Paris Salon.

 

Titled to the reverse “East End Farm, Ditchling”, the painting records a specific Sussex landscape and offers a charming glimpse of the rural countryside as it appeared over a century ago.

 

Oil on panel

21.5" × 19.5" framed

Period frame