Winter Skies, View from Gabriel's Wharf Still Lifes as he is internationally collected

as he is internationally collected and sits in many public collections including the Tate and what’s more was a much respected professor of painting at the Royal Academy Schools

acrylic paint and drawing ink on age-tanned vintage book pages & UV protective museum glass

as you will

Drawn in 1941 while the sitter was serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy it has all the late Deco style of Hollywood studio portraits of the previous decades

However in the mid-1950s he met the 16 year old Claire while she was working as an artists model

Winter Skies, View from Gabriel's Wharf Still Lifes as he is internationally collectedThis painting is in our Cecil Court gallery.