Ultimately the works were given to new hospitals, libraries, schools, and health centres that emerged after the war.
[7] M. H. Middleton reviewed the Leicester Galleries exhibition of Bellingham-Smith's paintings in November 1952: Miss Bellingham-Smith's wistful, gentle paintings, on the other hand, delicately touched in with sad grey-greens, tug at the heart like memories of childhood.
Her unpeopled landscapes evoke the enjoyable melancholy of the return from the Sunday afternoon walk with the dog, when there was rain in the sky and the wind lifted the birds from the meadow like the last leaves from the trees, and one thought of the fire in the nursery and crumpets for tea.Later in life, The Fens and East Anglia were featured in many of Bellingham-Smith's landscapes.
The family had a governess for John and a cleaning lady for the upkeep of their home on Old Church Street.
In 1946, Princess Elizabeth was accompanied by her mother to the house six times to sit for Moynihan, who had been commissioned to make her portrait.
[citation needed] Their evenings were often spent smoking and drinking in restaurants, bars, clubs or at parties.
John wrote the book The Restless Lives: The Bohemian World of Rodrigo and Elinor Moynihan.