Firle Beacon by Duncan Grant. 1953

Firle Beacon by Duncan Grant. 1953
In 1953 Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey, and Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing became the first people to scale the summit of Mount Everest.
Life after the war years was getting better, rationing was becoming a thing of the past and life seemed a little brighter.
This painting seems to have that brighter outlook.