Painting is by a distant relative, Sidney Dennant Moss (1885 - 1946)
Sidney Dennant Moss was born at Ipswich on 10 June 1885, son of Robert John Moss (1859-6 April 1932), a draper's accountant, and his wife Alice Maud née Dennant (1858-1895), who married at Ipswich in 1882.
As an apprentice lithographic artist in Manchester, on 27 November 1905 he joined the Amalgamated Society Of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers & Process Workers, where he learnt his art skills, resigning in 1911.
In 1911, Sidney was a 25 year old lithographic designer, boarding at Porth Enys Villa, Mousehole, Cornwall and served in the First World War as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps and after serving in France and Salonika, was demobilised from the 95th Labour Corps in 1919.
A landscape and figure painter and a member of Ipswich Art Society 1913-1930 and 1935-1941, exhibiting from Tunbridge Wells in 1923 three works, 'Moonrise, Ashdown Forest', 'Walberswick' and 'Moonlight' and in 1927 three works 'Autumn in Downland' and two watercolours 'Cloud Castles' and 'And the Sun was Darkened'. He resigned his membership of Ipswich Art Society in August 1930 but was re-elected at Ipswich in 1935 when he exhibited from the same address two watercolours, 'Half a Gale, Newhaven' and 'Rolling Downs'
He died at Lewes Railway Station, Sussex on 21 December 1946, aged 61. Brighton Art Gallery gave him a memorial exhibition in 1947 and his oil 'In Constable Country' was loaned by Ipswich Museum for exhibition at the Ipswich Art Club centenary in 1974. He signed his works 'S. Dennant Moss'.
Text from
Suffolkartists.co.uk
Postscript: In 2023 I managed to find and buy one of his paintings, making the distant connection something more physical.
from
Cheshire Ghosts,
released January 1, 2023
Ramlee Oak - Vocals / Bass
Peter Rand - Guitar / Keys
Moe Howard - Piano / Drums
Mix - Moe Howard
Lyric / Music - Peter Rand