Mary Rennell

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.

Life and career Rennell was born in London, the third of seven children daughter of the first Lord Bicester and Lady Sybil McDonnell. The family took frequent holidays to Glenarm Castle, home of her maternal grandparents, William McDonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim and Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim. The Arts Council of Wales and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth also hold examples of her work.

Rennell's experience with Moral Re-armament led to her conversion to Catholicism in 1952. In 1978, she became an oblate of St Benedict attached to Stanbrook Abbey (then in Callow End, Worcester).

She died in Oxford, aged 79.