Mary Constance Vivian Rodd, Lady Rennell (née Smith; 5 November 1901 – 31 May 1981) was an English landscape artist working mainly in pencil, chalk, and oils.
[1] Rennell was born in London, the third of seven children daughter of the first Lord Bicester and Lady Sybil McDonnell.
[1] She was educated at home by private tutors, but at 17 she joined the Slade School of Fine Art as a part-time student while also, for several months, working as a ward maid for the war wounded before the Armistice on 11 November 1918.
In 1940, Rennell took her children to America to avoid the impact of World War II on London.
[3][2] Originally Rennell mostly painted landscapes in oils but later turned to drawing in ink on rice paper.