Well painted original watercolour by listed Kent artist Sydney Brown (1898 - 1957), painted in 1950.

Titled "Near Luddesdown" depicting the view across the steep, wooded valley in which this hamlet lies.

Signed and dated 1950 lower right. Extensively inscribed on two labels affixed to the back board with the title, artist and detail of his Memorial Exhibition, staged in February 1952 by the Rochester and West Kent Art Society (of which Brown was a member). Purchased from the exhibition by Miss K Fleetney.

Watercolour and pencil on heavy, wove paper. In a gilt wood frame with wash line mount.

Watercolour in good original condition (see photo). Frame with some very slight nicks and scratches, mount clean (see photos). 

Image 34cm x 44cm, frame 52.5cm x 61.5cm.

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Luddesdown is a village and civil parish in the Gravesham district of Kent, England. This rural parish, forming part of the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, lies in a dry valley to the south of Gravesend. It is named after a scattered group of houses and farms around Luddesdown Court, which has the parish church next to it. The civil parish also contains the hamlets of Henley Street to the north, and parts of the hamlets of Great Buckland and Boughurst Street, both straddling the boundary with Snodland parish.

The valley narrows quickly to the south of Buckland, at the top of the dry valley floor. In this steep valley, facing west, is a vineyard, Monk's Vineyard; east are these woods: College, Haydown, Brazenden, Scrubes, Wrenches and Goss Hilly; Red Wood is to the north east. Apart from this eastern edge, there are Fowles/Brimp, Luxon, Molehill, Freezelands, Round, Tom Loft's, Longfield and Henley Woods. These are part of the now long and narrow Rochester Forest, much of which would have been used for the chandlery/shipbuilding of the Medway towns.