Original Pencil Drawing 'A Spaniel' by Rodrigo Moyniham RA - Provenance; Elinor Bellingham Smith c.1950

Artist in oil, watercolour, charcoal, and chalks. Born in Tenerife, of Irish-Spanish descent. He began to study art in Rome, later attending the Accademia Rosso in Florence, and from 1928-30, the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He exhibited with the London group from 1930, and between 1933 and 1936 he was a leading member of the objective abstractions group with Geoffrey Tibble and Graham Bell. In the late 1930's he was associated with the Euston Road school, painting portraits, figure groups and still life. In 1931 he married to the artist Elinor Bellingham-Smith, a fellow student at the Slade. They divorced in the late 1950’s and he then married Anne Dunne, also a painter. He served in camouflage regiment in the 2nd world war, later becoming an official war artist in 1943. He was elected R.A. in 1954 (resigned 1957, then re-elected 1979) From 1947 to 57 he was professor of painting at the Royal College of Art. A retrospective of his work was held at the R.A. in 1978. He exhibited widely in London, New York and elsewhere. Example of his work are held by the Tate Gallery, Royal Academy, Arts Council, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Provenance; Purchased from Elinor Bellingham Smith in 1984.