RP catalogue 09 - The Royal Society of Portrait Painters

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS
THE
ROYAL SOCIETY
OF
PORTRAIT PAINTERS
2009
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Federation of British Artists
17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD
Telephone 020 7930 6844
[email protected]
www.mallgalleries.org.uk www.TheRP.co.uk
2009
PATRON
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
THE
ROYAL SOCIETY
OF
PORTRAIT PAINTERS
PATRON
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
ANNUAL EXHIBITION
2009
7th to 23rd May
Open daily including Sundays
from 10am to 5pm and until 7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
the exhibition closes at 1pm on Saturday 23rd May
MALL GALLERIES
THE MALL, LONDON SW1
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Worshipful Company
of Goldsmiths in the provision of the Gold Medal
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD
Telephone: 020 7930 6844
Websites: www.TheRP.co.uk www.mallgalleries.org.uk
Cover painting
The Hairdresser (collection ‘People’s Portraits’ Girton College,
Cambridge) by Saied Dai RP
Designed and produced by Chris Drake
Printed by Duncan Print Group
Published by The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
© 2009 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
ISBN 978-0-901-415-22-6
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is a registered charity
Registration Number 327460
PATRON
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
OFFICERS
Advisory Board of the Royal Society
President
Council
of Portrait Painters
Alastair Adams
Jason Bowyer
Anne Beckwith-Smith LVO
Vice President
June Mendoza
Meri Benham
Andrew James
Anastasia Pollard
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster GCB, CVO
Simon Davis
Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll DBE
Robbie Wraith
Lord Fellowes GCB, GCVO, QSO
Honorary Secretary
Damon de Laszlo
Melissa Scott-Miller
Executive Officer
Meri Benham
The Hon. Sandra de Laszlo
Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE, OC
Honorary Treasurer
Daphne J. Todd OBE, PPRP, NEAC, Hon. SWA
Brendan Kelly
Secretary
Mary Rundell
Hanging Committee
Honorary Archivist
Geoffrey Hayzer, Foreman
Toby Wiggins
Commissions Consultants
June Mendoza
Patrons
Stephanie Dellner
Gallery Manager
The Lord Crathorne
Exhibitions Officer
Simon de Zoete
Patricia Houchell
Annabel Elton
David Cobley
Andrew Buxton
John Deston
John and Annemarie Edwards
Richard Hoare
Press and Publicity
Candy Hurst Brown
Richard Fitzwilliams
Amanda Hutton
Emma Healey
Andrew Mitchell MP
Maggie Paul
Giles Prichard-Gordon
Sir David Scholey
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DECEASED HONORARY MEMBERS
PAST PRESIDENTS
PAST VICE PRESIDENTS
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema OM, RA, RWS
1891 – 1904
A. Stuart Wortley
1898 – 1934
The Hon. John Collier OBE
Maurice Bradshaw OBE
1906 – 1910
Sir W. Q. Orchardson RA, HRSA
1934 – 1944
George Harcourt RA
Sir George Clausen RA
1910 – 1924
Sir James J. Shannon RA
1944 – 1952
Sir Oswald Birley RA
Sir Arthur Cope RA
1924 – 1930
Sir William Orpen KBE, RA, RHA
1952 – 1953
T. C. Dugdale RA
Cowan Dobson RBA
1932 – 1940
Sir John Lavery RA, RSA, RHA, Etc
1953 – 1957
Simon Elwes ARA
William Dring RA, RWS
1944 – 1948
George Harcourt RA
1959 – 1964
Sir William Hutchison PPRSA
Hugh de T. Glazebrook
1948 – 1953
Augustus John OM, RA
1966 – 1980
Norman Hepple RA
Kenneth Green
1953 – 1965
Sir James Gunn RA, LL.D
1980 – 1985
John Ward RA, RWS
Sir James Guthrie PRSA, RA
1965 – 1971
Sir William Hutchison PPRSA
1985 – 1991
George J. D. Bruce
Allan Gwynne-Jones DSO, RA
1971 – 1980
Edward Halliday CBE, PPRBA
1991
Edward Hall
J. McLure Hamilton
1980 – 1983
Norman Hepple RA
1991 – 1994
Richard Foster
Augustus John OM, RA
1983 – 1991
David Poole ARCA
1994 – 1999
Trevor Stubley RWS, RBA
Dame Laura Knight RA, RWS
1991
Edward Hall
1999 – 2001
Paul Brason
Leonard C. Lindsay FSA
1991 – 1994
George J. D. Bruce
2001 – 2002
Andrew Festing MBE
Sir William Llewellyn PRA
1994 – 2000
Daphne Todd OBE
2002 – 2008
Susan Ryder NEAC
Sir John Everett Millais PRA
2000 – 2002
Paul Brason
A. T. Nowell
2002 – 2008
Andrew Festing MBE
Herbert A. Oliver RI
Sir Edward Poynter, PRA, RWS
Hugh G. Riviere
Carlos Sancha
C. Sanders RA
John S. Sargent RA, RWS
Howard Somerville
A. R. Thompson RA
G. F. Watts OM, RA
T. Fiddes Watt RSA
J. McNeill Whistler HRSA, LL.D
Walter Woodington RBA, NEAC
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HONORARY MEMBERS 2009
MEMBERS 2009
William Bowyer RA, RP, RWS, NEAC
Alastair C. Adams PRP President
Susan Ryder RP, NEAC
Derek Clarke RP, RSW, ARSA
Douglas Anderson RP
Melissa Scott-Miller RP, NEAC Honorary Secretary
Claude Harrison ARCA
Jane Bond RP, NEAC
Stephen Shankland RP
Leonard McComb RA, Hon. RBA
Jason Bowyer RP, NEAC, PS
Jeff Stultiens RP
Tom Phillips CBE, RA, Hon. PS
Paul Brason PPRP
Benjamin Sullivan RP, NEAC
Leonard Rosoman OBE, RA
Keith Breeden RP
Jason Sullivan RP
Tai-Shan Schierenberg
George J. D. Bruce PPRP
Michael Taylor RP
Trevor Stubley RWA, RWS
Thomas J. Coates RP, PPPS, PPRBA, RWS,
Daphne J. Todd OBE, PPRP, NEAC, Hon. SWA
John H. Wonnacott
PPNEAC, RWA
John Walton RP
David H. Cobley RP, RWA, NEAC
Emma Wesley RP
Saied Dai RP
Toby Wiggins RP Honorary Archivist
Simon Davis RP, RBSA
Antony Williams RP, PS, NEAC
Frederick Deane RP
Robert Wraith RP
John Edwards RP
Martin Yeoman RP, NEAC
Andrew Festing MBE, PPRP
Richard Foster RP
David Graham RP
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 2009
Robin-Lee Hall RP AGBI Steward 2008-9
Geoffrey Hayzer RP
Anthony Connolly Assoc. RP
Sheldon Hutchinson RP
Valeriy Gridnev Assoc. RP, PS, ROI
Andrew James VPRP Vice President
Binny Mathews Assoc. RP
Brendan Kelly RP Honorary Treasurer
Sergei Pavlenko Assoc. RP
Peter Kuhfeld RP, NEAC
James Lloyd RP
June Mendoza OBE, RP, ROI, Hon. SWA
Anthony Morris RP, NEAC
Michael Noakes RP
Anastasia Pollard RP
David Poole PPRP, ARCA
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HONORARY FRIENDS
Ms Philippa Abrahams
Mrs Lucy Jenkins
Prof. Dame Marilyn Strathern
Ms Anne Allport
Dr Gillian Jondorf
The Lord Vinson of Roddam Dene LVO, DL
Sir Ian Amory
The Rt. Hon. Tessa Jowell MP
Ian Wallace Esq.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Archer of Weston Super Mare
Henry Keswick Esq.
Anthony Weale Esq.
Ms Pim Baxter
Mrs Julian Kitchener-Fellowes LVO
Duncan Wilson Esq.
Keith Benham Esq.
Sir Kirby and Lady Laing
Andrew Wilton Esq.
The Rt. Hon. Virginia Bottomley MP
Miss Pat Lambert
Gyles Brandreth Esq.
Ms Christina Leder
Robin Buchanan-Dunlop Esq.
Professor Norbert Lynton
Gerald Carroll Esq.
Professor Kenneth McConkey
Colonel William Chesshyre
David Messum Esq.
Alastair Adams PRP President
Mrs Peter Cookson
Dr Mark Moody-Stuart
Diana Armfield RA, Hon. NEAC, Hon. PS Artist
Conrad Dehn Esq.
Tom Muir Esq.
Sarah Howgate Contemporary Curator,
Ms Susan Engledow
Ms Jans Ondaatje-Rolls
National Portrait Gallery
Ms Katherine Eustace
Richard Ormond Esq.
James Lloyd RP Artist
Michael Fawcett Esq.
William Packer NEAC, Hon. RBA, Hon. PS
James Partridge OBE Chief Executive and
Julian Fellowes Esq.
James Partridge OBE, DSc.
Founder, Changing Faces
Ms Moira Field
Ms Liz Rideal
Simon Wilson OBE Writer on Art and former
Ms Frances Gandy
Alasdair Riley Esq.
Tate Curator
Dr Rita Gardner
The Hon. Maurice Robson
Martin Gayford Esq.
Sir Timothy Sainsbury
Robin Gibson Esq.
Dr Charles Saumarez Smith
David Goldstone Esq.
Sir David Scholey
Philip Harley Esq.
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Selborne
Sir Max Hastings
Michael Shea Esq. CVO
Michael Holroyd Esq.
Robin Simon Esq.
David Houchin Esq.
Peyton Skipwith Esq.
Ms Sarah Howgate
Philip Solomon Esq.
Ms Dotti Irving
Peter Spira Esq.
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PRIZE JUDGING PANEL 2009
President’s statement
Welcome to this, the catalogue of the
118th Royal Society of Portrait
Painters Annual Open Exhibition.
RP’s recent projects. Brendan Kelly, who
As for myself, I was elected President after
recently completed an historic large-scale
last year’s AGM, and after exhibiting with the
commission for the International Security
Society since 1996. I became a Member in
Assistance Force, has taken up the post of Hon
2002, a Council Member in 2003 and Hon
Treasurer. Melissa Scott-Miller, winner of the
Treasurer in 2006. As well as being a practicing
It is also my pleasure to introduce myself to
2008 Lynn Painter Stainer’s prize, who takes
portrait painter I also hold an academic
you as the new President of the RP, and as
over as Hon Secretary, and Toby Wiggins,
position at Loughborough University where
such, I’d like to use the catalogue as an
whose recent portrait of author Ronald Blythe
my research interests are based around
opportunity to ring in some changes and
is on display, takes on the role of the Society’s
drawing and representation. My ambition for
report on the diversity of RP activities beyond
archivist. This is an exciting role given the
the Society as President is to continue to build
the public face of the annual exhibition.
Society’s long history and the level of support
upon our history and strong reputation as a
and opportunities for archives today.
source of high quality, original and inventive
First of all, however, on behalf of the Society,
world-leading commissioned portraiture. I’m
I would like to thank Andrew Festing for his
also keen to promote our support for the
direction and leadership over the last six
continuation and development of original,
years. Andrew made a fine President whilst
incisive, observationally-centred, drawing
maintaining his enviable profile as a leading
and painting skills within practice and a
commissioned portrait painter. During his
higher level of debate around the application
tenure we saw the introduction of the
and interpretation of portraiture. This is
Bulldog Bursary, the extension of the Annual
evidenced through the many drawings and
Open to the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle,
paintings selected for this year’s exhibition
sponsored by Northern Rock, the ‘Self-Portrait’
and the work of the Society’s Members and
exhibition and publication, and the
Associates. This year’s exhibition will also
introduction of several new patrons and
host the RP/Changing Faces ‘Face to Face’
sponsors that have enabled us to inherit the
debate that seeks to explore the portrait as a
RP in the healthy state that we see it today.
means of identifying with personality and
Thanks are also due to Sue Ryder for her
character whilst challenging social taboos
work, alongside Andrew, as Vice President
surrounding appearance.
over his term, and Jane Bond for her work
Last year’s candidates selection created three
over the last 16 years as the Society’s archivist.
new members. These are James Lloyd, winner
As a charity, I see the RP continuing to provide
of last year’s Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture
a diverse range of platforms for the
This is also an opportunity for me to
and a previous recipient of the BP Portrait
encouragement and support of portrait
introduce some new faces on the Council
Award; Stephen Shankland, also a previous
painting today whilst being forward thinking
and to the Society itself, along with formally
winner of the BP Portrait Award, who recently
for tomorrow. Currently, these platforms
recognizing and congratulating prize-winners
completed a portrait of Sir Peter Mansfield,
include commissions, exhibitions, awards,
from 2008. Taking over the role of Vice
and Robin-Lee Hall, a skilled painter working
mentoring, educational initiatives, archives,
President is Andrew James, Hon Secretary
in egg tempera with personal commendations
publications and collaborative projects. Plans
from 2004 and collaborator on many of the
from Prince Charles to her name.
are afoot in the coming year to develop the
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current RP online provision further, in order to
Many artists have also been working towards
provide a larger, more comprehensive resource
the completion of a large-scale commissioned
for portrait painting. Our aim is to provide
project from long-term Society Patron Sir
support and representation for long-term
Christopher Ondaatje. This has involved the
professional practice whilst opening doors to
commissioning and production of some 20
those starting-out and wanting to know more
portraits of past and present leading literary
about this fascinating subject.
figures housed in the ‘The Ondaatje Museum’
located near Countisbury on the North
The Society’s activities this year have seen
Devon Coast. Based in a refurbished
two more Member donations to the People’s
farmhouse and laundry, this normally private
Portrait collection housed at Girton College
museum will be open to the public for the
Cambridge (see later report), the successful
first time during the September 2009 Porlock
completion of the first Bulldog Portrait
Arts Festival. Beyond this, it is intended that
collaboration. The RP is always willing to
Bursary award by artist Joe Galvin (see later
the museum should be the venue for special
discuss the development of collaborative
report) and the commencement of the
readings and book launches to help authors
projects of this nature.
second with artist Daniel Shadbolt alongside
and certain charities. Many thanks go to
numerous individual Member and Non-
members who have worked hard on realising
All of our activities are as a result of abundant
Member commissions established by the RP’s
this project, and also to Sir Christopher
goodwill, support and advice from friends,
excellent Commissions Service.
Ondaatje for his foresight instigating the
members and our highly experienced and
valued advisory body.
We must, however, remember and thank the
subjects and commissioners of our own
paintings. The generous gift of the sitter’s time
and the patron’s willingness to support artists
by funding and loaning works helps make
exhibitions and artistic careers all the richer.
Commissioning a portrait is a brave step,
perhaps currently braver even than sitting for
one. Financial climates change but the
intrinsic value of a portrait remains timeless.
By commissioning a portrait through the RP,
clients are ensured access to the highest levels
of professional practice in the knowledge that
they are supporting and securing a future for
portrait painting practice.
Left and above: The Ondaatje Museum
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Annual Open Award Winners 2008
Congratulations go to Richard Brazier and
Keith Breeden, recipients of The Arts Club
Awards for ‘Seated Man’ (left) and ‘David
Holmes’ (top middle); Peter Brown, recipient
of the Prince of Wales’s Award for Portrait
Drawing for ‘Last Minute Homework’
(centre); Ruth Murray, recipient of the de
Laszlo Foundation Prize for ‘Girl of 100
Epochs’ (bottom middle); Hynek Martinec,
recipient of the Changing Faces Prize for
‘Bagram in New York’ (top right) and James
Lloyd, recipient of the ’08 Ondaatje Prize for
Portraiture for ‘Iris and Me’ (bottom right).
Our thanks to our generous sponsors for
providing awards totalling some £18,000.
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Looking back – The Bulldog Bursary experience
Joseph Galvin, recipient of the first
Bulldog Portrait Bursary for Excellence,
and the de Laszlo Foundation Award
for Portraiture tells us about the year
that transformed his life.
carry. I realised that a lot rested on the
This was not a difficult decision to make, as
interview and I anxiously waited for a
the opportunity to rent a studio at the Art
decision. An hour passed and my phone rang,
Academy in central London, along with free
it was Andrew Festing, the then President of
access to the courses there, was excellent.
the RP. To my huge relief, he congratulated
Working in close proximity to the Art
me on becoming the first winner of the
Academy’s resident artists proved to be an
Bulldog Portrait Bursary.
enormous benefit. The move also located me
In 2000, I graduated with a degree in Fine
near to many RP members, who would act as
Art. I enjoyed my time on the degree, but felt
my mentors. Access to contact of this kind
that my future as an artist lay in a different
was inspiring and in contrast to the isolation
direction from the more conceptual art that
I was used to. Access to extra drawing study
was encouraged on my degree course. I
at the Art Academy also proved challenging
wanted to pursue figurative painting and
and significant in my development.
with it, my strong interest in portraiture. It
became apparent that I was embarking on a
The Bursary also enabled me to make use of a
very demanding skill-based practice that
generous offer from The Heatherley School of
undergraduate study had not prepared me
Fine Art. Access to their advanced portrait
for. The learning curve I faced was near
painting classes enabled me to work directly
vertical but I persisted and taught myself the
from the model, with sustained poses lasting
fundamentals of drawing and painting. This
over a period of weeks. Working from life is
effort was recognised after submitting my
ideal for portrait painters wishing to try out
first portrait for selection to the Royal Society
new ideas and hone skills, however, hiring a
of Portrait Painters Annual Open Exhibition.
model to pose for a painting can be expensive.
The acceptance of this work, a portrait of my
Consequently, the opportunity to work for a
father, literally encouraged me to continue
sustained period was valuable, and I was able
to develop more realised portrait studies.
painting. This was a challenging period as
there were many times when I had to stop
On 3rd October 2007, I received the award at
painting to take on paid work in order to
an exhibition of self-portraits by RP Members
I met and visited many different artists in my
survive. I always came back to painting
at the headquarters of the Bulldog Trust.
bursary year. It was an exciting chance to get
however, holding on to my belief that I could
Richard Hoare, previous Chairman of the
a real fly on the wall insight into the
eventually become a full-time artist.
Trust, handed me the Award that was to mark
Member’s portrait practice. Although I had
the start of a transformational year in which I
read books on portrait painting, and searched
In 2007, I saw an advert for the new Bulldog
would meet many of the Society’s members,
the internet to glean what information I
Portrait Bursary Award posted on the Royal
and in the process, learn a great deal about
could, I had never had the opportunity to
Society of Portrait Painters (RP) website. I
the practice of contemporary portraiture.
learn directly from the artists themselves.
On the day, I travelled down to London from
After winning the bursary, I decided to leave
Meetings often involved visiting the artists in
Cardiff with as many paintings as I could
Cardiff and relocate to London for the year.
their studios and discussing their work and
applied and was shortlisted for an interview.
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practices has made a positive impact on my
at the Art Academy and at The Heatherley
own practice and is something I will cherish.
School of Fine Art, has really paid off. As a
result, I have become better equipped to deal
Towards the end of the bursary I received my
with the challenges that professional portrait
first commissions through the RP, and
painting practice provides. I imagine there
painting these seemed a perfect and logical
are many developing artists who would be
way to round-off my apprenticeship with the
keen to experience the opportunities that I
Society. There is, after all, no better way of
have had over the bursary year. I hope the
learning than actually working on a
results will speak for themselves.
commission in order to develop the practical,
personal and communicative skills you need.
The Bulldog Portrait Bursary aims to develop the
talent of an artist at an early stage in their
The bursary has undoubtedly been a truly
career, and provides an opportunity for an artist,
unique experience, and I feel privileged to
regardless of location, to be mentored by
have undertaken it. As a result, I feel I have
Members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
taken my painting to another level, and with
Benefits include access to facilities at The
this has come a valuable growth in
Heatherley School of Fine Art and the possibility
confidence. I feel that the support received
of studio space at the Art Academy. Applicants
process. Each artist’s individual approach had
from RP Members in the form of the advice
are invited to submit two painted or drawn
something to offer me, and these meetings
coupled with practical studio practice, both
portraits during May each year.
gave me a broad view with which to
contextualise my own artistic practice.
I also had the privilege of visiting three artists:
Andrew Festing, Jason Bowyer and Susan
Ryder, whilst they painted, and with the
sitters present. This was fascinating and
provided a valuable insight into practical
issues and procedures like viewpoint, lighting,
methods of measuring, organisation of the
palette and so on. It was also very helpful to
see how they resolved issues brought about
by working directly from a sitter, and the
challenges of painting from life. The artists I
met also openly discussed the business side of
painting, and how to gain new commissions.
The hospitality, generosity, and openness with
which the RPs offered me insight into their
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Michael Reynolds RP, RBA, Rome Scholar (1933 – 2008)
For many years a greatly-admired Member of
art Establishment had sold out to fallacious
this Society, Michael Reynolds was a painter
vacuities which encouraged theories that had
of blazing integrity. He had a remarkable
no real content. This may appear to some as
grasp of the great interweaving movements
a reactionary stance, but he was a man of
in the history of painting and drawing, and a
great liveliness of mind. He was sometimes
wonderfully thorough technical knowledge.
irascible, and although I almost always rather
His work is in important collections,
enjoyed that aspect of his personality, it
including the National Portrait Gallery and
certainly offended some people.
the Royal Collection, and he helped initiate
The Discerning Eye open competition.
Though not personally ambitious, towards
the end of his life he felt under-appreciated
A gifted draughtsman and a painter of
in this country. It was partly because of this,
admirable quality, who worked to the highest
and partly because of his health, that he
standards and was never superficial, he
decided to spend his final years in Italy and
believed that many recent movements in art
Holland. His four daughters survive him.
were meretricious, and that almost all the
great organisations that make up the present
Michael Noakes RP
John Ward CBE, RP, NEAC, Hon. PS (1917 – 2007)
“He was a LOVELY man”: is invariably the
spidery hand to former students and acolytes:
round to his way of thinking, and did so quite
initial response of anyone you ask who knew
words of wisdom, stressing the sheer joy of
genuinely, proved the validity of his judgment.
him. And he was, civilised, genteel, kind and
painting and how lucky we are; words of
enormously generous with his encouragement
praise for something of theirs seen on his
He stood for beauty. When, during the row
of those of us following in his wake. He must
travels, “You are painting so well, I am glad.
about the notorious Sensation exhibition,
have spent time every morning writing in his
It encourages me to try harder!” and similarly
John was insulted by the Secretary of the Royal
self-deprecating small confidences about the
Academy who declared that there was no
difficulty of achieving financial success, just
point to art that did not change the world, he
in case others were downcast about their own
resigned and refused to go back. We at the RP
exhibitions. In the febrile world of dog eat
have been enormously privileged to have had
artistic dog this appeared almost saintly.
both him and his lovely portraits amongst us.
Quietly-spoken, John may have been, but at
Daphne Todd OBE, PPRP, NEAC, Hon. SWA
his core was a steely determination. On more
P.S. Visit Challock Church in Kent, full of his
than one occasion I have witnessed him
murals from 1956 and from 1999. A perfect
dominate a prize-giving panel. That they came
place… you will see.
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The Hairdresser and the Note-Taker: New additions to People’s Portraits
From the lifeboatmen of Fowey to a
retired actor, people from different
walks of life are captured in a unique
exhibition of 40 portraits housed at
Girton College.
growth.” Each year the exhibition is added to
its emphasis on community, Girton very
by new members. The two most recent
much welcomes visitors to view the People’s
additions both unveiled by Dr Charles
Portraits exhibition. The exhibition is open
Saumarez Smith at a reception last September
to the public (free admission) between 2pm
are ‘Girish Sethna, Note-Taker’ by Alastair
and 4pm daily. It may be seen at other times
Adams PRP (below) and ‘The Hairdresser’ by
by prior arrangement. Groups wishing to visit
Saied Dai RP (front cover image).
the collection should book in advance.
The People’s Portraits collection reflects a
Visitors are asked to sign-in at the Visitors’
cross-section of people’s lives in the United
Entrance (at the rear of the College) or
Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st
Porters’ Lodge (at the front of the College) on
Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects
arrival please. Visitors should then follow the
and styles. The calibre of the artists, all of
signs to the Exhibition Area. We have limited
whom are members of the Royal Society of
disabled access to the College; please notify
Portrait Painters, makes this one of the UK’s
us in advance if you use a wheelchair. For any
hidden jewels in the portraiture world.
enquiries, call 01223 338901, or email
[email protected] or visit:
The collection originated in a millennial
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/about/peoples-
exhibition mounted by the Royal Society of
portraits-exhibition/
Portrait Painters, which was seen by over one
million people during its tour of England in
2000. Since 2002, People’s Portraits has come
to reside in the beautiful surroundings of
Girton College on long-term loan. This
arresting and original exhibition is
Alastair Adams, President of the Society
continually growing thanks to the ongoing
explains “The paintings produced offer an
generosity of those newly-elected members of
insight into contemporary society by
the Royal Society of Portrait Painters who
illustrating the many stories that people have
donate a portrait to the collection.
to tell and lives that are led, but that would
not normally be the subject of a
The Mistress of Girton College, Professor
commissioned portrait. This is an important
Dame Marilyn Strathern says, “Girton has
process and, in housing the collection,
proudly housed the ‘People’s Portraits’
Girton College promotes one of portraitures
exhibition since 2002. Nearly seven years on,
greatest strengths, that of the ability to
it feels just as fresh and as vibrant today,
communicate at a sophisticated artistic level
making it a testament to the breadth and
whilst remaining accessible to all”.
quality of portraiture work being created in
the UK, and thanks to the collection’s steady
In-line with the College’s interest in art and
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THE ONDAATJE PRIZE
FOR PORTRAITURE
in association with The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
The President, Council and Members are enormously grateful to
Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE, OC, and the Ondaatje Foundation for their
generous sponsorship of this major annual award to the painter
of the most distinguished portrait of the year.
The prize was launched in 1995 and took the form of a commission to
paint our Patron H.M. The Queen, for the Society. From 1996 the Prize has
taken the form of a cheque in addition to the Society’s Gold Medal.
The year 2009 sees the prize money at £10,000.
Previous Prize Winners
1995 Antony Williams 1996 Desmond Healy
1997 Thom Winterburn 1998 Paul Brason 1999 John Ward CBE
2000 Leonard Rosoman OBE, RA 2001 Daphne Todd OBE
2002 Martin Yeoman 2003 Michael Reynolds 2004 Howard J. Morgan
2005 John H. Wonnacott 2006 Saied Dai 2007 Tom Coates
2008 James Lloyd
THE
DE LASZLO FOUNDATION
AWARD
The Society wishes to acknowledge the considerable
interest shown by The de Laszlo Foundation in encouraging young artists
and furthering the aims of The Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
We are pleased to announce that the Silver Medal together with
a cheque for £3,000 will be awarded to the artist, aged thirty five or under,
judged to have submitted the best portrait.
The President, Council and Members wish to express their gratitude
to The de Laszlo Foundation for instigating this award.
Previous Prize Winners (Awarded by The Carroll Foundation until 2003)
1990 David Quirke 1992 Nahem Shoa 1993 Richard Smith
1994 Haydn Cottam 1995 Antony Williams 1996 Frances Turner 1997 Francis Terry
1998 Andrew James 1999 James Lloyd 2000 T. M. J. Leveritt 2001 James Schneider
2002 Benjamin Sullivan 2003 Francisco Centofanti 2004 Brendan Kelly
2005 Emma Wesley 2006 Frances Bell 2007 Patrick Bremer
2008 Ruth Murray
CLARENCE HOUSE
THE PRINCE OF WALES’S AWARD
FOR PORTRAIT DRAWING
The President, Council and Members are deeply grateful to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales for The Prince of Wales’s
Award for Portrait Drawing, a framed certificate and a cheque for £2,000, which is made annually.
Previous Prize Winners
1999 Nicholas Cochrane 2000 Tom Coates 2001 Sheldon Hutchinson
2002 Peter Kuhfeld 2003 Warren Baldwin 2004 Anthony Connolly 2005 Toby Wiggins
2006 Thomas Lumley 2007 Saied Dai 2008 Peter Brown
THE CHANGING FACES PRIZE
We are delighted to present the Changing Faces Prize again this year for the portrait that is “most powerful in the way that
the subject communicates with the viewer beyond the canvas.”
I think many people would admit that their first impressions of people who have disfigurements are often less than positive,
purely because of the value judgements we place on appearance alone. Yet many people who have disfigurements are
successful communicators and know how to use non-verbal skills to help people see that their scar, mark or unusual feature
is just one part of the overall picture.
The Judges will therefore be considering artists whose portraits engage with the viewer through the energy of their subject’s
gestures, the directness of their gaze and an attitude which exudes openness and confidence.
Later this month, the RP and Changing Faces will host ‘Face to Face: looking at and portraying disfigurement’, an evening
discussion during which a distinguished panel of artists, critics and disfigurement experts will explore the role that
portraiture can play in changing our perceptions about disfigurement.
We look forward to congratulating the Changing Faces Prize Winner.
JW Anthony Cann
Chairman, Trustees of Changing Faces
The President, Council and Members wish to express their gratitude to Changing Faces for instigating the Changing Faces Prize.
The award takes the form of a cheque for £2,000.
Previous Changing Faces Prize Winners
2002 Michael Taylor 2003 Jason Bowyer NEAC 2004 Alastair C. Adams 2005 Jean-Paul Tibbles
2006 Toby Wiggins 2007 Brendan Kelly 2008 Hynek Martinec
THE ARTS CLUB AWARD
The President, Council and Members would like to express their thanks to The Arts Club for
The Arts Club Award, as judged by The Arts Club Committee. The Award comprises one year’s free
membership to The Arts Club, eligible to an artist showing work at the 2009 exhibition,
who is not already a current Arts Club Member.
Previous Prize Winners
2004 Antony Williams 2005 Jennifer Anderson 2006 Valeriy Gridnev 2007 Robbie Wraith and Linda Atherton
2008 Keith Breeden and Richard Brazier
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The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is extremely grateful for the generosity of the Bulldog Trust in
setting-up the Bulldog Bursary for Excellence. This is a bursary of £5,000 given annually to an up and
coming portrait painter. They will be able to do an apprenticeship with members of the Society of their
choice during the year they are the winner as well as receiving the bursary from the Bulldog Trust. The
winner is chosen by the President and Council of the RP after a national call for entries.
The winner for 2008-2009 is Daniel Shadbolt, whose portrait ‘Matt’ is on show in the exhibition.
The Bulldog Trust support the development of talent across the arts, they set up the Bulldog Bursary with
the RP to encourage the perpetuation of the skills and excellence involved in professional portraiture.
We are delighted to be able to offer the winner the truly unique opportunity of learning this art from the
UK’s master portrait painters themselves.
THE DE LASZLO FOUNDATION
The de Laszlo Foundation has very kindly offered the de Laszlo Scholarship of £2,500 to be given to the
winner of the Bulldog Bursary to enable him/her to pursue their studies in greater depth during the year.
The RP would also like to thank them for their wonderful support.
Anyone interested in entering the competition next year should call the Federation of British Artists,
telephone: 020 7930 6844 or email: [email protected].
THE
ROYAL SOCIETY
OF
PORTRAIT PAINTERS
ANNUAL EXHIBITION
2009
ALASTAIR C. ADAMS PRP
Sir Colin Campell, Vice Chancellor of
Nottingham University, 1988 – 2008
70 x 123 cms (28 x 48 ins)
Oil
22
KEITH BREEDEN RP
Professor Sheila Hollins,
President of The Royal
College of Psychiatrists,
2005 – 2008
66 x 61 cms (26 x 24 ins)
Oil
23
JANE BOND RP, NEAC
Leila Meinitas
113 x 64 cms (44 x 25 cms)
Charcoal
24
The Sheriff and his cat
Geoffrey Bond O.B.E., D.L., F.S.A.
Sheriff of London 2003/4
84 x 71 cms (33 x 28 ins)
Oil
25
TOM COATES RP, PPNEAC, PPRBA, PPPS, RWA, RWS
Professor John. M. Dillon
81 x 97 cms (32 x 38 ins)
Oil
Professor of Classics at
Berkeley and Chairman of
the department of Classics.
Awarded the Regius
Professorship of Greek at
Trinity College, Dublin.
Many honours and books
have come his way. I found
him a most genial sitter who
always reads even during the
breaks I gave him.
26
Richard Sorrell PRWS, NEAC
Risenga, drummer
97 x 81 cms (38 x 32 ins)
61 x 51 cms (24 x 50 ins)
Oil
Oil
A good friend who I highly admire
and a very talented artist.
27
DAVID COBLEY RP, RWA, NEAC
Nick Bouras, Professor Emeritus
of Psychiatry
51 x 46 cms (20 x 18 ins)
Oil
28
ANTHONY CONNOLLY Assoc. RP
Mrs. Edmondson
(Detail)
76 x 61 cms (30 x 24 ins)
Oil
Honoria Fitzgerald was born in
Sonnagh, County Mayo, in August
1919. She was the second of eight
children. She moved to London in
1938 and served in the WRAF during
the war. Soon afterwards she met
Kenneth Edmondson and they were
married in 1948. They lived in
Hornby, Lancashire for 55 years. They
had eight children. She was widowed
in 2001. She now lives in Wiltshire.
29
SAIED DAI RP
The Hairdresser
(Collection ‘People’s Portraits’,
Girton College, Cambridge)
122 x 76 cms (48 x 30 ins)
Oil
30
VALERIY GRIDNEV Assoc. RP, PS, ROI
Hugo, Toby, Kitty
and Lottie Zeal
127 x 153 cms
(50 x60 ins)
Oil
31
SIMON DAVIS RP, RBSA
Joan as Police Woman
51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
Oil
Joan Wasser is a wonderful singer from
New York. I contacted her last year with
the insane hope that I could maybe get
the opportunity to paint her when she
was next in London.
Much to my amazement, she said that
this would be fine so we met last summer
to take photographs. It is still incredible
to me that it was that straightforward.
Joan was charming, gracious and very
patient, which was of great comfort as
meeting someone I hugely admire whilst
trying to appear professional had been a
source of great worry.
I wanted the portrait to be a quiet study
so decided to strip away any background
to try and reflect the honesty and
beautiful directness of her songs.
32
Lament
31 x 25 cms (12 x 10 ins)
Oil
This painting is a portrait of a very dear
friend that I have known since school.
This is the first time I have painted her,
which in itself is strange. I have no
explanation for it.
33
JOHN EDWARDS RP
Dr Keith Eaton, Chief Executive
The Institution of Structural
Engineers 1999 – 2008
91 x 71 cms (36 x 28 ins)
Oil
34
Charlie Parsons, Esq.,
Producer
(Kindly lent by Lord Alli)
102 x 76 cms
(40 x 30 ins)
Oil
35
ANDREW FESTING MBE, PPRP
The City of London Club
152 x 203 cms (60 x 80 ins)
Oil
36
Portrait of Sir Christopher
Ondaatje CBE, OC
107 x 86 cms (42 x 34 ins)
Oil
37
RICHARD FOSTER RP
Miss Isabella Thomas
Mr & Mrs Andrew Jeans
76 x 64 cms (30 x 25 ins)
76 x 64 cms (30 x 25 ins)
Oil
Oil
38
In the studio
76 x 102 cms (30 x 40 ins)
Oil
39
DAVID GRAHAM RP
Odalisque
92 x 77 cms (36 x 30 ins)
Oil
40
Samantha
Mamadou
87 x 70 cms (34 x 28 ins)
92 x 77 cms (36 x 30 ins)
Oil
Oil
Mamadou, from Africa, was an enthusiastic sitter. He is very interested in
painting, his favourite is Velasquez.
41
ROBIN-LEE HALL RP
Nick
46 x 67 cms (18 x 27 ins)
Charcoal
42
Piano Man
13 x 20 cms (5 x 8 ins)
Egg tempera
43
SHELDON HUTCHINSON RP
Gaby Köpf
59 x 42 cms (23 x 16 ins)
Pencil
I was trying, with difficulty, to get my shoes
repaired in Hangzhou, a city south of Shanghai,
when the cobbler said “Ah, your wife’s here (Ni
de airen lai le)” and suddenly this delightful
German girl was interpreting for me in perfect
Chinese. She’s doing a higher degree in Chinese
literature at Hangzhou University. She wanted
to speak Mandarin as a little girl and has been
spectacularly successful. She’s worked hard,
including doing a year in a remote city in the
West, where with her green eyes she must have
seemed very strange to the locals. She’s also got
a top degree in economics from Konstanz and I
suspect she’ll end up head of the world bank or
president of something. My shoes were well
repaired and are still intact.
This is a very unflattering pose, with me looking
up her nose. It’s hard to look beautiful, or even
alive, when almost horizontal and lit from
below but I think she just about manages it.
44
A young dancer
59 x 42 cms (23 x 16 ins)
Pencil
This young lady is also modelling for a sculptor.
There's going to be a massive statue of her in
Tuscon, Arizona, a nine foot bronze. She'll be a
fairy or a nymph or possibly an angel.
Adele
71 x 58 cms (28 x 23 ins)
Pencil
She has the looks and physique of a glamorous
and effective assassin you might see in a
Hollywood film but you couldn't meet a lovelier
or more generous person. Adele spent several
years working with children with multiple
disabilities and then in the Sussex ambulance
service before modelling full time.
This drawing is a study for a painting and I had
to add paper when I decided to make the image
larger. Drawing that sofa was an ordeal. It was
tiring putting all the stripes and little
decorations in the right place. In the final
painting the sofa was simplified. I was sitting
only a couple of feet from the end so
everything's wildly foreshortened. The nearest
stripes are more than twice the size of the
furthest ones and it took some time for that to
sink into my head. I reduced the size of the feet
a little so they didn't loom out too much.
45
ANDREW JAMES VPRP
Jose
126 x 100 cms
(50 x 40 ins)
Oil
46
JAMES LLOYD RP
Lord Patten of Barnes
(By kind permission Newcastle University)
137 x 107 cms (54 x 42 ins)
Oil
47
JUNE MENDOZA OBE, RP, ROI, Hon. SWA
Sir Mark Elder – Conductor
102 x 127 cms (40 x 50 ins)
Oil
Sir Mark Elder is one of my
lovely musicians in the series I
have been doing for years.
He gave complete cooperation,
and with that instinct for what
you, as the painter, were doing.
A joy.
Against his absolutely plain
wall, the piano, music stand,
and Mark, plus the lamp, made
the very strong composition.
The private in-joke, is the
barely seen conductors’ batons
on the piano which he keeps
in a child’s pencil case.
48
Lord Newton of Braintree
91 x 71 cms (36 x 28 ins)
Oil
I already knew of Tony Newton, the politician.
Now Brompton Hospital was commissioning a
portrait of their Chairman, Lord Newton.
A busy, lean subject with wonderful facial
shapes and colours. It would have been no
portrait of the man without depicting his
concentration, and energy – like a coiled spring.
I wandered around the hospital to find our
background. The bas-relief gave me just the
shape, scale, tonal range and journalistic
suitability to let the dark movement of the
body sing out.
49
ANTHONY MORRIS RP, NEAC
Portrait of Alys
76 x 76 cms (30 x 30 ins)
Oil
50
The Revd Professor Paul S. Fiddes, Principal
Emeritus, Regent’s Park College, University
of Oxford 1989 – 2007
102 x 76 cms (40 x 30 ins)
Oil
My friend and RP Member Michael Reynolds,
who, after a long illness, sadly passed away
last year, was due to paint this portrait of
Professor Fiddes.
At the time, he was too ill and suggested that
the Regent’s Park College should look at my
work with a view of my taking on the
commission.
Well here it is Michael. What do you think of it?
Those of us who knew Michael can guess the
colourful answer he would probably give.
51
MICHAEL NOAKES RP
Dom Christopher Delaney, O.S.B.
Commissioned by parishioners of the Church of St Mary of the
Angels, Cardiff
56 x 41 cms (22 x 16 ins)
Pencil
H.R.H. The Princess Royal. Patron, Special Forces Club
132 x 102 cms (52 x 40 ins)
Oil
52
The Rt Hon. Lady Thatcher, L.G., O.M., F.R.S.
Commissioned by the Royal Hospital Chelsea
132 x 180 cms (52 x 71 ins)
Oil
53
BINNY MATHEWS Assoc. RP
Cheryl Campbell
76 x 69 cms (30 x 27 ins)
Oil
The actress Cheryl Campbell
sat for me in 2008. While we
were deciding what she was
going to wear for the picture,
she put on these red gloves,
and this striking pose became
the basis of the painting.
Astonishingly, Cheryl was able
to exactly replicate the pose
every time! I have dramatised
her charismatic and theatrical
quality by using the flat black
played against the impact of
the spotlit subject.
54
SERGEI PAVLENKO Assoc. RP
HM King Abdulah II of the
Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan, Colonel in Chief,
The Light Dragoons
200 x 127 cms (79 x 50 ins)
Oil
55
SUSAN RYDER RP, NEAC
Phoebe with Molly
and Mungo
66 x 63 cms (26 x 25 ins)
Oil
56
The Deacon family
96 x 130 cms (38 x 51 ins)
Oil
The Carr Ellison family
76 x 127 cms (30 x 50 ins)
Oil
57
ANASTASIA POLLARD RP
Valentina
51 x 41 cms (20 x 16 ins)
Oil
58
MELISSA SCOTT-MILLER RP, NEAC
Alfred and George
61 x 76 cms
(24 x 30 ins)
Oil
59
DAPHNE TODD OBE, PPRP, NEAC, Hon. SWA
Sylvia and George Walpole-Brown
76 x 102 cms (30 x 40 ins)
Oil
Movingly, Sylvia and George
commissioned this painting following an
uncertain diagnosis for George after only
six years of a very happy marriage. Sylvia,
originally from Blackburn, was a Civil
Servant at Cheltenham, is master of five
languages and is keen on keeping fit,
while George, an Accountant, is from a
country background and loves to shoot
and to play the trombone. Together they
had already acquired two paintings by
Michael Taylor – a good sign! – and,
indeed, a more sympathetic pair of sitters
would be difficult to imagine.
60
Julia Dalton, Headmistress, St. Leonard-Mayfield School
Peter Gwynn-Jones Esq., C.V.O., Garter Principal King of Arms
By kind permission of the Governors
76 x 51 cms (30 x 20 ins)
127 x 64 cms (50 x 25 ins)
Oil
Oil
Having painted the previous Head, Sister Jean Sinclair, I was asked
by the Governors to paint Julia Dalton twice: once for the school
and once as a retirement gift from them to her. As these progressed
Julia commissioned a companion piece of her husband. So I got to
know and admire her particularly well, not least since we are both
Ambassadors for East Sussex!
“Garter”, as he is informally addressed, is retiring from the College
of Arms after some forty years. Among other ceremonial duties
supporting the monarch, it is he and his Heralds who devise coats
of arms for those eligible to be armiginous. After chatting about my
recent portrait of Lord Tebbit, Peter was reminded that he had not
yet had his coat of arms designed. I am told the result includes a
Marguerite, in deference to Margaret, Lady Tebbit, and… polecats!
61
JOHN WALTON RP
Amel & Louise
51 x 38 cms (20 x 15 ins)
Oil
62
The Steventon sisters
69 x 76 cms
(27 x 30 ins)
Oil
63
EMMA WESLEY RP
Margaret Bent CBE, FBA
All Souls College, Oxford
122 x 122 cms (48 x 48 ins)
Acrylic
64
Myles Burnyeat CBE, FBA
41 x 81 cms (16 x 32 ins)
Acrylic
Sir Brandon Gough, Chancellor of the University
of East Anglia
30 x 46 cms (12 x 18 ins)
Pencil
65
TOBY WIGGINS RP
Natalie reading
50 x 40 cms (20 x 16 ins)
Oil
66
Ronald Blythe in his study at Wormingford, Essex
Patient Cat
40 x 30 cms (16 x 12 ins)
30 x 24 cms (12 x 10 ins)
Oil
Oil
67
ANTONY WILLIAMS RP, NEAC, PS
John III
106 x 92 cms (42 x 36 ins)
Egg tempera
68
Study of a woman
50 x 70 cms (20 x 27 ins)
Pencil
69
JOHN WONNACOTT Hon. RP
Edwin Manton
34 x 26 cms (13 x 10 ins)
Pencil
70
Reclining nudes: watching
the beautiful woman
158 x 122 cms (62 x 48 ins)
Oil
While working on landscapes of the Hudson from the
57th floor balcony of the AIG building on Pine St. XIY, I
would draw Sir Edwin Manton during coffee breaks while
we talked of our shared memories of Leigh on Sea.
The painted head in Tate Britain shows Jim wreathed in
smiles but many of my drawings reveal more of the
delicate frailty of great age.
By contrast, my ‘beautiful young woman’ has all the
glorious vigour of her youth, against which her ‘ancient
dog’, painted in one session, seems as a ‘memento mori’.
71
ROBBIE WRAITH RP
Study
25 x 20 cms (10 x 8 ins)
Oil
72
Yvonne Eller
33x 28 cms (13 x 11 ins)
Drawing
73
TAI-SHAN SCHIERENBERG Hon. RP
Sketch of Stephen, 2008
20 x 25 cms (8 x 10 ins)
Oil
Last summer, Dame Stephanie
Shirley commissioned me to
paint a portrait of the
theoretical physicist Stephen
Hawking for the Royal Society.
This small oil sketch was done
over two days in the professor’s
study at Cambridge University.
74
STEPHEN SHANKLAND RP
Study of St. Paul’s
Cathedral Lay Canon
Peter Chapman
61 x 60 cms (24 x 24 ins)
Oil and gold leaf
75
MARTIN YEOMAN RP, NEAC
Ripu Sondi Esq., Lucknow 2008
18 x 13 cms (7 x 5 ins)
Pencil
76
THE
ROYAL SOCIETY
OF
PORTRAIT PAINTERS
CATALOGUE
2009
69
FRANCES BELL
ALASTAIR ADAMS PRP
1
Oil, 41 x 36 cms (16 x 14 ins)
Oil, 92 x 70 cms (36 x 27 ins)
NFS
Oil, 70 x 123 cms (28 x 48 ins)
NFS
Marc Crank
Oil, 107 x 92 cms (42 x 36 ins)
JAMES ALLEN
19
10
NFS
The Sheriff and his cat
Oil, 84 x 71 cms (33 x 28 ins)
20
NFS
Leila Meinitas
Priscilla
Charcoal, 113 x 64 cms (44 x 25 cms)
Oil, 95 x 80 cms (37 x 32 ins)
NFS
£3,000
RICHARD BRAZIER
21
4
12
Oil, 122 x 91 cms (48 x 36 ins)
Conté, 70 x 56 cms (27 x 22 ins)
NFS
£850
13
CAROLINE ARMSTRONG
5
Untitled
Pencil, 57 x 77 cms (22 x 30 ins)
14
NFS
MALCOLM ASHMAN RBA, ROI
6
Richard Lawrence
15
Pencil, 78 x 61 cms (31 x 24 ins)
£800
Bella
Oil, 51 x 40 cms (20 x 16 ins)
Oil, 139 x 121 cms (55 x 47 ins)
£4,600
Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2005 – 2008
Oil, 61 x 41 cms (24 x 16 ins)
Oil, 66 x 61 cms (26 x 24 ins)
NFS
NFS
Self-portrait
23
Untitled
Oil, 46 x 61 cms (18 x 24 ins)
Mixed, 160 x 61 cms (63 x 24 ins)
NFS
NFS
Jean
24
Untitled
Pencil & charcoal
Mixed, 31 x 31 cms (12 x 12 ins)
41 x 33 cms (16 x 13 ins)
NFS
RUPERT W. BROOKS
16
25
Passing through
Olivia
Oil, 37 x 67 cms (15 x 26 ins)
Oil, 89 x 71 cms (35 x 28 ins)
£1,400
£7,500
GEORGE LAWRENCE BROWN
JUDITH BARTON SWA
Ray and Betty (friends reunited)
Professor Sheila Hollins, President of The
Fayrose
NICK BRANDT
NFS
8
KEITH BREEDEN RP
22
NFS
ALDO BALDING
7
NFS
Debroah
Sue
Head of the Greek
Oil, 41 x 30 cms (16 x 12 ins)
JASON BOWYER RP, PNEAC, PS
VICTOR AMBRUS RE, PS, ARCA
Roy Strong and his amazing garden
Pencil, 107 x 153 cms (42 x 60 ins)
NFS
11
That look
Oil, 41 x 36 cms (16 x 14 ins)
JANE BOND RP, NEAC
NFS
3
In the silence
Nottingham University, 1988 – 2008
9
NFS
2
18
Oliver and Olive
Sir Colin Campell, Vice Chancellor of
PAUL BRASON PPRP
17
26
Self-portrait
A true thing
Pencil & chalk, 40 x 50 cms (16 x 20 ins)
Oil, 107 x 80 cms (42 x 32 ins)
NFS
NFS
Ella in her Boden top
36
29
30
NFS
NFS
£3,300
Self-portrait 2009
44
Hannah
Oil, 50 x 40 cms (20 x 16 ins)
Oil, 30 x 22 cms (12 x 8 ins)
£1,200
£4,500
£1,500
PHILIP CARROLL
RICHARD COMBES ROI
SUSAN CRAWFORD
NHS patient waiting I
38
Mike II in recovery
45
H.R.H. The Duchess of Cornwall
Oil, 73 x 59 cms (29 x 23 ins)
Oil, 44 x 39 cms (17 x 15 ins)
Oil, 28 x 35 cms (11 x 14 ins)
£4,500
£2,000
NFS
NHS patient waiting II
Ben and Marko
Oil, 155 x 115 cms (61 x 45 ins)
48 x 28 cms (19 x 11 ins)
£5,000
ANNABEL CULLEN
40
47
Joss
Mrs. Edmondson
Charcoal, 78 x 66 cms (31 x 26 ins)
Oil, 76 x 61 cms (30 x 24 ins)
£1,050
NFS
SALLY CUTLER
Oil, 69 x 53 cms (27 x 21 ins)
DAVID COOPER (Invited by Leonard
£850
41
PPPS, RWA, RWS
Richard Sorrell PRWS, NEAC
48
London heads
McComb RA, Hon. RP, RWS, RE)
Linocut, gouache & lead type
Ellie
59 x 59 cms (23 x 23 ins)
Oil, 97 x 81 cms (38 x 32 ins)
Edition of 50 (49 available)
£4,000
Framed £390
Unframed £350
Oil, 97 x 81 cms (38 x 32 ins)
IAN COX
42
Mimi
Professor John. M. Dillon
Oil, 43 x 36 cms (17 x 14 ins)
Oil, 81 x 97 cms (32 x 38 ins)
£1,000
NFS
46
Watercolour & Indian ink
ANTHONY CONNOLLY Assoc. RP
Portrait of Antoinette McKane
NFS
Whispers II
£1,370
BARRY CHARLTON
TOM COATES RP, PPNEAC, PPRBA,
MICHAEL CROKER
VANIA COMORETTI
39
Mary Irvine
NFS
35
Grace
Acrylic, 139 x 55 cms (55 x 22 ins)
Conté, 93 x 63 cms (37 x 25 ins)
34
GARY CRAIG
NICHOLAS COCHRANE
37
DEREK CHAMBERS
33
Sarah Kershaw
Oil, 48 x 42 cms (19 x 16 ins)
£4,500
32
43
Oil, 51 x 46 cms (20 x 18 ins)
Oil, 73 x 59 cms (29 x 23 ins)
31
Nick Bouras, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
Oil, 25 x 20 cms (10 x 8 ins)
VINCENT BROWN
28
NIGEL COX
DAVID COBLEY RP, NEAC, RWA
PETER BROWN NEAC, PS, ROI
27
49
Lollipop lady, Policeman, fancy dress
dog, observer
Linocut & lead type
26 x 26 cms (10 x 10 ins)
Edition of 50 (37 available)
Risenga, drummer
Framed £120
Oil, 61 x 51 cms (24 x 50 ins)
Unframed £100
NFS
The Hairdresser
58
Sir Roger Norrington – Conductor
66
Smoke, 87 x 99 cms (34 x 39 ins)
Oil, 76 x 64 cms (30 x 25 ins)
Girton College, Cambridge)
£5,000
NFS
MADELINE FENTON
NFS
59
67
SIMON DAVIS RP, RBSA
Oil & tempera, 30 x 27 cms (12 x 11 ins)
Joan as Police Woman
£850
NFS
68
60
61
Joseph Galvin, portrait painter
Dr Keith Eaton, Chief Executive,
62
63
71
Profile study
£1,000
Ruby
FELICITY GILL
Oil, 22 x 22 cms (8 x 8 ins)
NFS
72
Barbara Windsor MBE
Oil, 94 x 84 cms (37 x 33 ins)
NFS
ALEX RUSSELL FLINT
64
Babushka
Oil, 36 x 40 cms (14 x 16 ins)
(Kindly lent by Lord Alli)
NFS
JAMES GILLICK
73
Portrait of Alice Fry
Chalks & coloured pencil
Oil, 102 x 76 cms (40 x 30 ins)
NFS
65
MARYAM FOROOZANFAR
59 x 51 cms (23 x 20 ins)
Thomas K.
NFS
DONALD FAULKNER
Oil, 22 x 22 cms (8 x 8 ins)
Greg
NFS
NFS
JOSEPH GALVIN
Oil, 56 x 40 cms (22 x 16 ins)
Charlie Parsons, Esq., Producer
Pencil, 64 x51 cms (25 x 20 ins)
NFS
ELISABETH FITZGERALD
Oil, 91 x 71 cms (36 x 28 ins)
57
Mary and Rosie
Still water
£5,000
1999 – 2008
56
RICHARD GALE
70
Oil, 83 x 83 cms (33 x 33 ins)
The Institution of Structural Engineers
NFS
NFS
Oil, 130 x 99 cms (51 x 39 ins)
NFS
55
Watercolour, 30 x 22 cms (12 x 9 ins)
DAVID FISHER
Oil, 30 x 30 cms (12 x 12 ins)
JOHN EDWARDS RP
Nicky
The City of London Club
NFS
£2,000
54
69
Oil, 152 x 203 cms (60 x 80 ins)
Oil, 61 x 41 cms (24 x 16 ins)
GABRIELLA DENNY SEGURA
NFS
NFS
£950
Amplifier
Portrait of Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE, OC
Oil, 107 x 86 cms (42 x 34 ins)
Oil, 31 x 25 cms (12 x 10 ins)
53
In the studio
Oil, 76 x 102 cms (30 x 40 ins)
ANDREW FESTING MBE, PPRP
£1,700
Lament
Miss Isabella Thomas
Oil, 76 x 64 cms (30 x 25 ins)
Cecilia
Oil, 51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
52
Mr & Mrs Andrew Jeans
(Collection ‘People's Portraits’,
Oil, 122 x 76 cms (48 x 30 ins)
51
RICHARD FOSTER RP
MICHAEL JAMES FENNELL
SAIED DAI RP
50
Scroobius Pip, Angles
83
76
91
Oil, 30 x 40 cms (12 x 16 ins)
£950
£12,000
£2,000
Samantha
GRAHAM KERSHAW
NEIL B. HELYARD
84
Thelma
92
Charcoal, 53 x 53 cms (21 x 21 ins)
Chris Jones
£4,500
£500
Oil, 140 x 115 cms (55 x 45 ins)
£3,500
Odalisque
KEN HOWARD RA, PPNEAC, FROI,
PETER KUHFELD RP, NEAC
Hon. RBA, RWA, RWS
85
Self-portrait 26.12.08
93
Oil, 61 x 31 cms (24 x 13 ins)
Charcoal & conté
Oil, 92 x 77 cms (36 x 30 ins)
£6,000
86 x 68 cms (34 x 27 ins)
NFS
SHELDON HUTCHINSON RP
VALERIY GRIDNEV Assoc. RP, PS, ROI
86
Adele
Hugo, Toby, Kitty and Lottie Zeal
Pencil, 71 x 58 cms (28 x 23 ins)
Oil, 127 x 153 cms (50 x 60 ins)
£1,200
NFS
87
88
NFS
95
NFS
SANDRA LAWRENCE
96
£3,950
JAMES HAGUE
ANDREW JAMES VPRP
Mette and Iben
89
POA
82
TORE JUELL
Piano Man
NFS
Nick
Charcoal, 46 x 67 cms (18 x 27 ins)
NFS
97
Pug
Oil, 37 x 37 cms (15 x 15 ins)
£500
ROBIN-LEE HALL RP
Egg tempera, 13 x 20 cms (5 x 8 ins)
MARTIN LEMAN RBA
Jose
Oil, 126 x 100 cms (50 x 40 ins)
NFS
81
Fabrique
Acrylic, 82 x 56 cms (32 x 22 ins)
NFS
Oil, 130 x 140 cms (51 x 55 ins)
Harry Patch
Oil, 66 x 56 cms (26 x 22 ins)
Gaby Köpf
Pencil, 59 x 42 cms (23 x 16 ins)
NFS
Miss Fenton
Oil, 64 x 58 cms (25 x 23 ins)
£950
The boxer, William Lukins
Oil, 76 x 61 cms (30 x 24 ins)
A young dancer
94
Pencil, 59 x 42 cms (23 x 16 ins)
DAVID GRIFFITHS
80
Thalia in Armani
Mamadou
NFS
79
The poet by the stream, portrait of
Oil, 87 x 70 cms (34 x 28 ins)
POA
78
Head study ‘After Collins’
Oil, 50 x 50 cms (20 x 20 ins)
Oil, 92 x 77 cms (36 x 30 ins)
77
K
Pencil, 80 x 62 cms (32 x 24 ins)
DAVID GRAHAM RP
75
WILL KEMP
PHILIP HARRIS
LEIGH GLOVER
74
90
The philosopher Arne Naess
Oil, 30 x 25 cms (12 x 10 ins)
NFS
98
JAMES LLOYD RP
DR. LEONARD McCOMB RA,
Lord Patten of Barnes
Hon. RP, RWS, RE
(By kind permission Newcastle
99
105 Portrait of Suzanne Coburn
University)
Pencil & watercolour
Oil, 137 x 107 cms (54 x 42 ins)
39 x 35 cms (16 x 14 ins)
NFS
£3,000
Phoebe
106 Portrait of James Butler RA
Oil, 66 x 66 cms (26 x 26 ins)
Pencil & indian ink
£4,200
39 x 35 cms (16 x 14 ins)
100 Sir James Drummond Bone
(By kind permission University
£3,000
107 Portrait of Andrew Schumann
DAVID MILLER RBA
113 Valerie
Oil, 133 x 103 cms (53 x 40 ins)
£5,500
ANTHONY MORRIS RP, NEAC
114 The Revd Professor Paul S. Fiddes,
Principal Emeritus, Regent's Park College,
University of Oxford 1989 – 2007
Oil, 102 x 76 cms (40 x 30 ins)
NFS
115 Portrait of Alys
of Liverpool)
Pencil, ink & watercolour
Oil, 163 x 112 cms (64 x 44 ins)
39 x 35 cms (16 x 14 ins)
NFS
£3,000
PAT MACLAURIN
JUNE MENDOZA OBE, RP,
Pastel, 46 x 69 cms (18 x 27 ins)
ROI, Hon. SWA
NFS
Oil, 76 x 76 cms (30 x 30 ins)
NFS
116 Pastel study
101 Sogo
Oil, 50 x 40 cms (20 x 16 ins)
£800
108 Sir Mark Elder – Conductor
Oil, 102 x 127 cms (40 x 50 ins)
NFS
GABRIELLA MARCHINI
102 Joy and her shadow
Pencil, 55 x 74 cms (22 x 29 ins)
£900
109 Digby and friends
Oil, 163 x 140 cms (64 x 55 ins)
NFS
110 Lord Newton of Braintree
LUKE MARTINEAU
103 Grace at the piano
Oil, 66 x 57 cms (26 x 23 ins)
£3,000
BINNY MATHEWS Assoc. RP
104 Cheryl Campbell
Oil, 76 x 69 cms (30 x 27 ins)
NFS
Oil, 91 x 71 cms (36 x 28 ins)
NFS
111 Baroness P. D. James of Holland Park
LUIS MORRIS AROI
117 Self-portrait in grey
Oil, 51 x 41 cms (20 x 16 ins)
NFS
118 Sally waiting
Oil, 84 x 58 cms (33 x 23 ins)
NFS
KEITH MORTON
119 Joyce Morton
Pencil & watercolour
Oil, 48 x 43 cms (19 x 17 ins)
51 x 64 cms (20 x 25 ins)
NFS
NFS
AMIN MILANI
112 Adam
Acrylic, 147 x 112 cms (58 x 44 ins)
£2,850
120 Yvonne
Oil, 47 x 43 cms (19 x 17 ins)
£650
ANDREW NEWTON
121 Cathy
Oil, 71 x 71 cms (28 x 28 ins)
NFS
MICHAEL NOAKES RP
122 H.R.H. The Princess Royal.
129 HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO
(Kindly lent by Twickenham District
EMILY PORTER-SALMON RBSA
137 Sisterhood (Lesley Chan)
Patron, Special Forces Club
Masonic Centre)
Acrylic & metal leaf
Oil, 132 x 102 cms (52 x 40 ins)
Oil, 102 x 66 cms (40 x 26 ins)
60 x 60 cms (24 x 24 ins)
NFS
NFS
£3,500
123 The Rt Hon. Lady Thatcher, L.G., O.M., F.R.S.
(Commissioned by the Royal
Hospital Chelsea)
Oil, 132 x 180 cms (52 x 71 ins)
NFS
124 Dom Christopher Delaney, O.S.B.
(Commissioned by parishioners of the
130 The Lord Speaker, The Rt. Hon.
Baroness Hayman
NFS
125 Bruce Forsyth, Esq., C.B.E.
Study for portrait
Pencil, 56 x 45 cms (22 x 18 ins)
NFS
EDWARD OFOSU
126 Snoop Dogg
Acrylic, 26 x 31 cms (10 x 12 ins)
£400
KEN PAINE PS
127 Day dreaming
Acrylic, 80 x 100 cms (31 x 39 ins)
£7,000
SERGEI PAVLENKO Assoc. RP
128 HM King Abdulah II of the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan, Colonel in Chief,
Charcoal, 55 x 64 cms (22 x 25 ins)
for the Parliamentary Art Collection.
£300
On loan from the House of Lords)
Oil, 152 x 106 cms (60 x 42 ins)
NFS
ANGELA REILLY
139 Subject
Oil, 69 x 97 cms (27 x 38 ins)
ISOBEL PEACHEY
£9,500
131 Jocelyn
Oil, 51 x 66 cms (20 x 26 ins)
£1,895
SUSAN RELPH
140 Antonia Veronica
Oil, 108 x 70 cms (43 x 27 ins)
MORGAN PENN
£2,800
132 41
Oil, 30 x 71 cms (12 x 28 ins)
The late MICHAEL REYNOLDS RP,
NFS
RBA, Rome Scholar (1933 – 2008)
141 Madame Ghetz
ALEXANDER PIROGOV
133 Portrait of the composer Scriabin
Oil, 92 x 72 cms (36 x 28 ins)
NFS
Oil, 158 x 105 cms (62 x 41 ins)
(Winner of the Ondaatje Prize for
£3,800
Portraiture 2003)
ANASTASIA POLLARD RP
134 Valentina
PENNY ROSE
142 Studio model
Oil, 51 x 41 cms (20 x 16 ins)
Oil, 38 x 48 cms (15 x 19 ins)
£4,000
£590
135 Jolie Rouge
The Light Dragoons
Oil, 25 x 21 cms (10 x 8 ins)
Oil, 200 x 127 cms (79 x 50 ins)
£2,000
NFS
138 Fred
(Commissioned by the House of Lords
Church of St Mary of the Angels, Cardiff)
Pencil, 56 x 41 cms (22 x 16 ins)
GEORGINA READ
136 The book collector
Oil, 13 x 18 cms (5 x 7 ins)
NFS
ILARIA ROSSELLI DEL TURCO
143 The Russian woman
Oil, 42 x 40 cms (17 x 16 ins)
£400
IAN ROWLANDS
DANIEL SHADBOLT
(Invited by Melissa Scott-Miller RP, NEAC)
(Winner of the Bulldog Bursary 2008-9)
144 Self-portrait
153 Matt
Oil, 24 x 30 cms (10 x 12 ins)
Oil, 98 x 82 cms (38 x 32 ins)
£1,000
NFS
SUSAN RYDER RP, NEAC
STEPHEN SHANKLAND RP
145 The Deacon family
154 Study of St. Paul’s Cathedral Lay Canon
Oil, 96 x 130 cms (38 x 51 ins)
Peter Chapman
NFS
Oil & gold leaf, 61 x 60 cms (24 x 24 ins)
146 The Carr Ellison family
Oil, 76 x 127 cms (30 x 50 ins)
NFS
147 Phoebe with Molly and Mungo
Oil, 66 x 63 cms (26 x 25 ins)
NFS
Oil, 61 x 71 cms (24 x 28 ins)
NFS
TAI-SHAN SCHIERENBERG Hon. RP
149 Sketch of Stephen, 2008
Oil, 20 x 25 cms (8 x 10 ins)
NFS
MELISSA SCOTT-MILLER RP, NEAC
150 Self-portrait in garden
Oil, 91 x 91 cms (36 x 36 ins)
NFS
151 Cordelia
Oil, 61 x 51 cms (24 x 20 ins)
Mixed, 51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
£1,870
Oil, 61 x 76 cms (24 x 30 ins)
NFS
NFS
162 The artist’s daughter, Ellen
Charcoal & pastel
68 x 48 cms (27 x 19 ins)
NFS
163 The artist’s daughter, Isobel
Charcoal & pastel
NFS
BENJAMIN SULLIVAN RP, NEAC
164 Virginia
Oil, 20 x 19 cms (8 x 7 ins)
£1,650
156 Self-portrait I
Oil, 61 x 61 cms (24 x 24 ins)
NFS
157 Self-portrait II
Oil, 126 x 126 cms (50 x 50 ins)
NFS
SARAH ELIZABETH STACEY
158 Self-portrait
Pencil, 37 x 46 cms (14 x 18 ins)
NFS
MINNA STEVENS
159 Jo and Ruby
Oil, 115 x 95 cms (45 x 37 ins)
NFS
NFS
152 Alfred and George
Oil, 127 x 96 cms (50 x 38 ins)
155 Held child I
YASUNOBU SHIDAMI
148 Portrait of Janette Woodroffe
Lazarus at Combe Hill
68 x 48 cms (27 x 19 ins)
ANNE SHAW
NFS
YEVGENIYA SAVOSTA
161 Julia, Sam, Charlotte and Edward
JEFF STULTIENS RP
160 Paola Napoli
Oil, 102 x 152 cms (40 x 60 ins)
NFS
STEPHEN TEEUW
165 Head (second state)
Etching, 13 x 18 cms (5 x 7 ins)
Edition of 5 (4 available)
Framed £180
Unframed £150
EVAN THOMAS
166 Mr. Mancini No. 55
Oil, 85 x 70 cms (33 x 27 ins)
£3,500
CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
167 Bridget Salafia
Oil, 61 x 51 cms (24 x 20 ins)
NFS
JEAN-PAUL TIBBLES
168 Mirror VII
Oil, 140 x 105 cms (55 x 41 ins)
NFS
DAPHNE TODD OBE, PPRP,
NEAC, Hon. SWA
169 Peter Gwynn-Jones Esq., C.V.O., Garter
Principal King of Arms
ADELE WAGSTAFF
177 Fragility
Oil, 39 x 65 cms (15 x 26 ins)
St. Leonard-Mayfield School
Charcoal 33 x 38 cms (13 x 15 ins)
£350
(By kind permission of the Governors)
Oil, 127 x 64 cms (50 x 25 ins)
NFS
171 Sylvia and George Walpole-Brown
Oil, 76 x 102 cms (30 x 40 ins)
NFS
JOHN WALTON RP
179 Amel & Louise
Oil, 51 x 38 cms (20x 15 ins)
NFS
180 The Steventon sisters
Oil, 69 x 76 cms (27 x 30 ins)
DERMOT TRIMBLE
NFS
Oil, 57 x 50 cms (23 x 20 ins)
The late JOHN WARD CBE, RP, NEAC,
£500
Hon. PS (1917 – 2007)
181 Mrs. Cristobel Rieu
NADIA TSAKOVA
Oil, 150 x 60 cms (59 x 24 ins)
NFS
EMMA WESLEY RP
182 Margaret Bent CBE, FBA,
KATE TURNER
174 Self-portrait with family and friends
Oil, 70 x 90 cms (27 x 35 ins)
£2,500
SIMON TURVEY SWLA
175 Isabel
Oil, 95 x 65 cms (37 x 25 ins)
NFS
All Souls College, Oxford
Acrylic, 122 x 122 cms (48 x 48 ins)
NFS
183 Myles Burnyeat CBE, FBA
176 Edwin
Oil, 65 x 81 cms (26 x 32 ins)
£2,175
£1,750
187 Natalie reading
Oil, 50 x 40 cms (20 x 16 ins)
NFS
188 Ronald Blythe in his study at
Wormingford, Essex
Oil, 40 x 30 cms (16 x 12 ins)
£2,500
189 Jim Bettle, Charcoal Burner
£950
ANTONY WILLIAMS RP, NEAC, PS
190 John III
Egg tempera, 106 x 92 cms (42 x 36 ins)
191 Study of a woman
Pencil, 50 x 70 cms (20 x 27 ins)
NFS
DAVID WILLIAMS
192 The cubist and his family
Acrylic, 41 x 81 cms (16 x 32 ins)
Oil, 51 x 41 cms (20 x 16 ins)
NFS
£1,250
184 Sir Brandon Gough, Chancellor of the
University of East Anglia
Pencil, 30 x 46 cms (12 x 18 ins)
JOANNE VANCE
Oil, 30 x 24 cms (12 x 10 ins)
NFS
Oil, 53 x 40 cms (21 x 16 ins)
£1,200
186 Patient Cat
Pencil, 20 x 30 cms (12 x 18 ins)
172 Ousmane
173 Self-portrait
NFS
TOBY WIGGINS RP
JASON WALKER
178 Self-portrait, study for ‘Happy thought’
170 Julia Dalton, Headmistress,
Pencil, 18 x 26 cms (7 x 10 ins)
£3,500
Oil, 76 x 51 cms (30 x 20 ins)
NFS
185 Johnny in the Martello Tower
NFS
NICHOLAS CHARLES WILLIAMS
193 Custodian IV
Oil, 51 x 41 cms (20 x 16 ins)
£3,800
D.H. WILLIAMS-BULKELEY
194 The silver spoon
MARTIN YEOMAN RP, NEAC
203 Portrait of Sophie
Oil, 66 x 86 cms (26 x 34 ins)
Private collection
NFS
Oil, 56 x 41 cms (22 x 16 ins)
NFS
PAULA WILSON
195 Derek Johns, literary agent
204 Portrait of Liddy
Oil, 58 x 38 cms (23 x 15 ins)
(Private collection)
£975
Oil, 56 x 41 cms (22 x 16 ins)
NFS
JOHN WONNACOTT Hon. RP
196 Reclining nudes: watching the
beautiful woman
Oil, 158 x 122 cms (62 x 48 ins)
NFS
197 Edwin Manton
205 Ripu Sondi Esq., Lucknow 2008
Pencil, 18 x 13 cms (7 x 5 ins)
NFS
DUO DUO ZHUANG
206 Master Baker
Pencil, 34 x 26 cms (13 x 10 ins)
Oil, 100 x 100 cms (39 x 39 ins)
NFS
£4,000
NEALE WORLEY NEAC
(Invited by Susan Ryder RP, NEAC)
198 Robert in my studio
Oil, 122 x 102 cms (48 x 40 ins)
VALENTINA ZLATAROVA
207 Richard Morgan
Charcoal, 58 x 70 cms (23 x 27 ins)
NFS
£26,000
DAVID COBLEY RP, NEAC, RWA
ROBBIE WRAITH RP
199 Tiffany Thomas
Oil, 61x 46 cms (24 x 18 ins)
NFS
200 Study
Oil, 25 x 20 cms (10 x 8 ins)
NFS
201 Yvonne Eller
Drawing, 33 x 28 cms (13 x 11 ins)
NFS
202 Portrait
Drawing, 25 x 21 cms (10 x 9 ins)
NFS
208 Blues, Beer and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Oil, 122 x 122 cm (48 x 48 ins)
NFS
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