galleries in Britain and Europe including the British Museum and the William Morris Gallery. In 1936 he presented Bruges with over 400 works, now in the Arents House Museum. In return Bruges made him Citoyen d'Honneur de Bruges, only the third time the award had been given. The two battle scenes rejected by the House of Lords were donated to the National Museum Wales as part of a large group of gifts he made to the museum between 1929 and 1935. Brangwyn specified precisely where in the museum's Main Hall the works were to be hung and they remain there today. In 1944, he recovered and secured designs by Frederic Shields for the Chapel of the Ascension built by Herbert Horne, which was destroyed in 1940 during the London Blitz. In 1950, one of his last works provided illustrations for the book Sixty Years of Yachts by Herbert Julyan, a good friend. In his final years Brangwyn lived as a recluse at Ditchling in East Sussex. Brangwyn died on 11 June 1956 at his home in Ditchling. Brangwyn was buried in St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green. In 1952 Clifford Musgrave estimated that Brangwyn had produced over 12,000 works. Brangwyn's mural commissions would cover over of canvas, he painted over 1,000 oils, over 660 mixed media works (watercolours, gouache), over 500 etchings, about 400 wood engravings and woodcuts, 280 lithographs, 40 architectural and interior designs, 230 designs for furniture, and 20 stained-glass panels and windows. Interpretations The art writer Marius Gombrich links the decline of interest in Brangwyn's works to the decline of the British Empire, pointing out that Brangwyn's bold, vigorous, outward-looking art was suited to the expansive spirit of late-Victorian British society—but inconsistent with the inward-looking, less confident, and intellectually effete ethos prevalent in the post World War I period. Awards and honours 1891 Medal at Paris Salon 1894 Two medals at the Chicago Exhibition 1897 Gold Medal, Munich for The Scoffers 1897 Silver Medal, Great Exhibition Paris for The Market of Bushire 1902 Chevalier of the Legion of Honour 1904 Associate member of the Royal Academy 1906 Gold medal of Venice and Grand Prix of Milan for the etching Sante Maria della Salute 1910 Commemorative Diploma at the Japan-British Exhibition 1911 Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy 1912 Gold Medal, Berlin Salon 1917 Commander of the Italian Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus 1919