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Presentation: Unmounted
SN: 1668
Signed and dated 1927, inscribed with title to reverse
Black chalk, squared in pencil
25 x 16 in. (62 x 40 cm).

Provenance: Richards/Webb
Exhibited: Kingston University, (Permanent loan 13th July 1998)

Adam and Eve was the painting with which Brill won the 1927 Rome Scholarsip in Painting.
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Presentation: Mounted
SN: 2458
Pen and ink
14 x 17 in. (35.5 x 43 cm.)

Provenance: Jean and Cosmo Clark

Anticoli Corrado, a small village south of Rome, was famed for the beauty of its inhabitants and had, since the nineteenth century, been popular with Italian painters. Following in the footsteps of Colin Gill the first Rome Scholar, Winifred Knights and Job Nixon spent the Summer months of their scholarship in Anticoli, and subsequent scholars followed suit.

'Anticoli is a glorious place and a little terrifying, so wild and rugged with huge volcanic mountains all round. I have never imagined a more beautiful place. It hardly seems real. We saw Anticoli just springing up out of the precipice like a bundle of toadstools, all grey houses with green moss covered roofs' (Winifired Knights, letter to her mother, XIII, Jan 22 1921).

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Reginald Brill 1902 - 1974

Artist in oil and watercolour and fine draughtsman of landscapes, figure studies and portraits. Born in London, Brill studied under Henry Tonks at the Slade School 1921-4 after a period at the St Martin's School of Art. Won the Prix de Rome for painting and was at the British School in Rome 1927-9. Worked in Cairo, 1930. Exhibited at the RA, Leicester Galleries and in East Anglia, where he lived, at Lavenham. Was principal of Kingston School of Art. Wrote Modern Painting and Art as a Career. Kingston Polytechnic, the Royal Borough and the Phoenix Gallery organised a retrospective in Kingston in 1985, with another at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, 1999.