Roy Connelly

The two oil paintings above were painted yesterday at Chawton in Hampshire, the home of Jane Austen.  The top one is Jane Austen’s house where she lived for the last 8 years of her life.  Below it, is Chawton Great House now known as Chawton House Library.  It was owned by Jane’s brother, Edward.

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Below is the artist’s faithful dog guarding a work in progress.

Yesterday I visited the Corot to Monet exhibition at the National Gallery.   The show follows the development of outdoor landscape painting up to the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.

One of the many painters featured is Eugène  Boudin, who taught Monet to paint outside.  Above is one of the sketches I made at the exhibition,  one of Boudin’s beach scenes from Trouville.