Jonathan Myles Lea Obituary – Death: Jonathan Myles-Lea, 52, an English painter of country houses, historic buildings and landscapes, has died. Jonathan Myles-Lea, best known for painting, died on August 25, 2021 in Royal Crescent, Bath, UK, after a long battle with cancer.
Here’s a book I brought after one of Jonathan Myles-Lea’s Instagrams. He would wander around Bath drawing attention to the architecture, or show pictures of his beloved Italy. I’ve always loved Samuel Palmer but was not aware of his Italian paintings… pic.twitter.com/ZQZnLYZUUL
— Æthelstan 🐢 (@ASO1664) August 26, 2021
He became a member of The Colony Room, where he met the renowned Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon, who encouraged him to pursue a professional career in painting. In 1992, Myles-Lea left Channel 4 and went to help a friend for a year with the restoration of two historic buildings in the British countryside.
The wonderful Jonathan Myles-Lea has sadly died. I never met him but he was an incredibly insightful, spiritual and honest man. A true British gentleman. RIP Jonathan and God bless you.
— mark (@golden_dawn2814) August 26, 2021
They were Bettisfield Park, in Hanmer, Wales, a classic house built in 1760, and Plas Teg, a Jacobean mansion in Wales. The patronage of The National Trust continued until the mid-1990s with a commission to produce a series of pen and ink sketches of the house and garden features and a landscape plan for the gardens at Cliveden, Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
Rest in peace Jonathan Myles-Lea. A decent man, a gentle man, who lived for beauty in a world that has come to despise it, who bore his burden with grace, and has won through to a better place.
Look up his interviews with @JamesDelingpole
— Gary Conway 🙂 (@gazcon) August 26, 2021
In 1996 John Harris, writing for Sotheby’s, said: Felix Kelly owes much to Rex Whistler and was the modern master of the country house capriccio … Moving from Hampstead in late 2006, Myles-Lea moved to Wyndham . Place, Marylebone, which was his primary residence and studio until October 2011.
Rest in Peace brilliant, controversial and dear Jonathan Myles-Lea. Thank God for those who speak their mind and own their views. Your marvellous art and words will live on always. #jonathanmyleslea pic.twitter.com/pwpUSVHY7F
— Oliver Gerrish (@archmusicman) August 26, 2021
Very sad to hear about the death of the painter Jonathan Myles-Lea. We’d only become email friends recently and never got a chance to meet in person, but the grace, good humour & bravery with which he met his death this week was incredible. Here he is reading Kipling’s IF…
— Millarworld (@mrmarkmillar) August 26, 2021
Raising a glass to Jonathan Myles-Lea 🍷
R.I.P. Dude.
Heaven inherited a legend today 🙏
— Lord Samuel J Jack II (@SamuelJJack2) August 26, 2021
Remembering Jonathan Myles-Lea, who sadly passed away on the 25th August 2021. Jonathan was a talented artist, who devoted himself and his work to the preservation and pursuit of beauty.
Our thoughts are with those closest to him. pic.twitter.com/IV6nlevltX
— Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (@Scruton_Legacy) August 26, 2021
I am very sorry to hear of the death of Jonathan Myles-Lea, whose vocation to beauty did so much to ‘transform the lapsed imaginations’ of our time.
Lux aeterna luceat ei.
— Stephen Blackwood (@stephenblackwd) August 27, 2021
I really hope that Jonathan Myles-Lea’s experience, and recent passing, was not similarly affected by this.
So sad to find out that news today on the NCF YouTube channel.— Jonathan (@K1ng_John) September 1, 2021