Donald Chisholm Towner

300.00 Donald Chisholm Towner 1903-1985 Rye. This picture and the previous The Vale of Health Hampstead were both painted for a Hampstead resident who also had a house at Rye. Oil on canvas, signed D.C. Towner and dated 1979 lower right Towner was born at Eastbourne and studied at Eastbourne and Brighton schools of art and at the Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein 1923-1927. He moved to Hampstead in 1927 where he lived until his death and produced many paintings of the area and residents. D.C. Towner showed at the RA, Burgh House, NEAC etc. His niece was the artist Elizabet Towner and his father established and endowed the Towner Gallery at Eastbourne. Towner’s work is held in numerous public galleries including Burgh House, Hampstead.

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