Name: Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)
Brand: Nymans House, Sussex; two proposed facades, following the 1947 fire
Price: 1100.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)
Nymans House, Sussex; two proposed facades, following the 1947 fire
one signed 'Oliver Messel' (lower right); together with a 19th century print of Nymans
pencil and brown wash heightened with white, on paper
Each 12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43.2 cm.) framed

The artist, and by descent to Lord Snowdon.

D. Butler, ‘Lord Snowdon’s Workroom’, Vogue, 15 April 1971, (unnumbered), illustrated in Lord Snowdon's workroom.
Snowdon and F. von Hofmannstahl (ed.), Snowdon – A Life In View, New York, 2004, p. 172, illustrated in Lord Snowdon's workroom.
R. Muir, ‘Double Exposure: Lord Snowdon’s Kensington Villa’, World of Interiors, January 2009, p. 146, illustrated in the drawing room and the print: p. 150 illustrated in Lord Snowdon’s bathroom.

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Nymans, in West Sussex, was purchased by Lord Snowdon's great-grandfather Ludwig Messel (1847-1915) in the late 19th century. The house depicted in these drawings however is the house created by Oliver's father (and Lord Snowdon's grandfather) Colonel Leonard Messel in 1915. Designed by Sir Walter Tapper, it was the epitome of the early twentieth century vision of country house architecture and entertaining. Sadly the house suffered a disastrous fire in 1947 and was only ever partially rebuilt, the present lot possibly dating from around that time when Oliver suggested rebuilding, however his elderly parents following the Second World War, instead purchasing Holmsted Manor near Cuckfield . The house and its now famous garden were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1953.

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