Artist      Lord Methuen
Title       Severn Beach in the 1930s
Date      1960's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size       61 x 91.5cm
Ref         447

Purchased in the 114th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1966

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Severn Beach in the 1930s
A painter of wide ranging talents and subjects including landscape, architectural and figure in oil, watercolour and pastel, Lord Methuen was born Paul Ayshford Methuen, in 1884 in Corsham, Wiltshire and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. H was the 4th Baron Methuen and dedicated to the Arts. In 1946 he made his ancestral seat, Corsham Court available to the Bath Academy of Arts, along with eight large houses for student lodgings in the town itself. BAA continued to have studios there until 1986 when they finally moved to Sion Hill in Bath. Lord Methuen was well known to, and fondly remembered by the students at Corsham Court and it's Beechwood House annexe.

He studied art under Sir Charles Holmes and later Walter Sickert. He went to work in South Africa from 1910 to 1914, but returned to serve in France in the Scots Guards in the First World War. Lord Methuen was elected a member of the RBA in 1939, NEAC 1943, ARWS 1944, ARA 1951, RWS 1952, and RA 1959.

Lord Methuen of Corsham in Wiltshire was President of the RWA from 1940 to 1967 and he encouraged the Academy to ensure that all future Presidents were artists. He had a large retrospective exhibition filling all the galleries in 1970. Lord Methuen died after a short illness in 1974.

His work is represented in many public collections.

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