The Wilfrid de Glehn estate is represented by
David Messum Fine Art Ltd.
London
England
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Wilfrid and Jane de Glehn on a Cornish beach
with Barbara Tebbitt and friend
Rachel and her husband, Francis Marsh, subsequently moved to Essex, but on Francis’ early death in 1921 Wilfrid began to support Rachel and her children financially. Each year from then onwards, the de Glehns, lacking children of their own, took the Marsh children on holiday. They often spent the early part of the summer in company with the children at Inglewidden. There they spent long days on the beach and in a small dinghy called ‘The Puffin’, in which Wilfrid and the boys often explored the coastline near Helston and the Blackhead Rocks. Wilfrid relished the opportunity to awake early and paint en plein-air in England for longer periods than he had ever done previously.
Bathing in Cornwall, watercolour
Black Head and Ynys Rocks, Cadgwith, Cornwall,
c.1925
