Bad Likeness of the Father Abbot (D3219)

Works on paper

c1944, pen, ink and wash, 14×21.5cm

Inscription: inscribed above : ‘A bad likeness of the Father Abbot’

Provenance: Belleroche (No 221B); Paul Liss; private collection.

Illustrated: Belleroche, Brangwyn Talks, London, 1944, facing p56.

William Belleroche organised an exhibition of Brangwyn’s work at the Monastery of St Andre, Zevenkerken, Belgium and stayed with the monks. Presumably this drawing of Dom Theodore Neve is from a photograph since Brangwyn did not visit Belgium at this time.