“Livermore Tombs, Barnston, Essex” by Kenneth Rowntree – St Andrews Church, Barnston, Essex, UK - Paintings Then and Now on Waymarking.com

Kenneth Rowntree was born into a Quaker family in Scarborough in 1915. He was educated at Bootham School, York and trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing and the Slade School of Fine Art. In the post war period he taught painting at the Royal College of Art. By 1959 he was appointed Professor of Fine Art at Newcastle University. He had five one man exhibitions in London between 1946 and 1970.

Between 1940 and 1943 the Government commissioned 60 artists, including Kenneth Rowntree, to record the face of Britain. Recording Britain succeeded in cataloguing significant places in 36 counties of England and Wales. Rowntree was active in Bedfordshire, Essex, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Wales. From 1942 to 1949 Rowntree lived in Great Bardfield and became part of the Great Bardfield group of artists, along with Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious.

In the post war period Rowntree collaborated with Clough and Ellis on the Vision of England Series, Rowntree illustrating the volumes on Norfolk and the Isle of Wight. In 1951 he painted murals for the Festival of Britain.

The watercolour painting, dates to 1940, is in the V &A collection. The tombstones in the churchyard are dedicated to the four daughters of Edward and Sarah Livermore. They all died young: Martha Susannah, died of 'a slow decline' at the age of fourteen in 1827, Emma, age 22, was thrown from her horse in 1840, Jane, nineteen, died of a heart attack, closely followed by sixteen-year-old Maria who succumbed to smallpox in 1842.

The inscription on the gravestones are included in the photographs.

Website of painting. Exact URL of painting is required: [Web Link] Artist: Kenneth Rowntree Date of Painting: 01/01/1940 Date of Your Photograph: 07/10/2015 Medium of Painting: Watercolour

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