Does anyone recognise this windmill? It's supposedly a painting by DH Lawrence that I was given a postcard of. The watercolour painting is dated 1906-08 so it could be local or maybe when he was on holiday on the east coast. Mysteriously, it is part of the University of Nottingham's DHL collection but it appears online attributed to other, possibly Polish or Austrian, artists.
UPDATE - the other versions are slightly different (see pics) so I wonder if DHL painted his watercolour from another picture? He definitely did that with other paintings of his from about this period when he was young and learning to paint.
It could be artistic licence of course but it looks a bit like Strelley Mill which I write about along with the chequered history of Kimberley's old windmills up at Lawn Mills in this "Tale from Watnall Hall" called The Old Windmills of Kimberley...
Other Paintings Recreated By DHL
The painting is "An Idyll" by Maurice William Greiffenhagen and it inspired his novel the White Peacock. It had a profound effect on the author who wrote that...
"As for Greiffenhagen’s Idyll, it moves me almost as if I were in love myself".
"As for Greiffenhagen’s Idyll, it moves me almost as if I were in love myself".
He used old roof slates to paint on, some of which still exist, possibly I think at the DH Lawrence birthplace museum. He copied the paintings from books onto the slate.
This 1971 New York Times article talks about some old slates found by neighbours years after his death...
"Walker Street gives way to Lynn croft Road where, at Number 97, the Lawrence family lived from 1902 to 1910. Some years back neighbors at Number 99 found what they thought were two slate paintings by Lawrence hidden away in their fireplace."
"Walker Street gives way to Lynn croft Road where, at Number 97, the Lawrence family lived from 1902 to 1910. Some years back neighbors at Number 99 found what they thought were two slate paintings by Lawrence hidden away in their fireplace."
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Notes and sources
NYT article
https://watnallhall.blogspot.com/2024/05/eastwoods-proposed-dh-lawrence-memorial.html
https://watnallhall.blogspot.com/2024/05/eastwoods-proposed-dh-lawrence-memorial.html
Chronological list of works including later paintings
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.183183/2015.183183.The-Art-Of-Dhlawrence_djvu.txt
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