Evening Light on the Thames at Mortlake reserved and tried to acquire everything

and tried to acquire everything that comes on to the market - not so easy now that his prices have started to rise

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

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

We will never know whether this was a friend

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Evening Light on the Thames at Mortlake reserved and tried to acquire everything