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Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British and European art. Developing a knack for looking sideways.
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Carel Weight RA 'I Live Here.' Despite his success and just like his friend Stanley Spencer, Weight maintained his regular pattern of commuting by bus between his home in Clapham and his Putney studio. The landscape that was to Weight what Cookham was to Spencer.

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'The Nuremberg Trial,' Laura Knight. Flown to Nuremberg as an official war artist, Knight's portrait of the defendants departs from her usual realism: the back of the courtroom merges into the smoky ruins of the city. 'Death and destruction had to come into the picture,' she said

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John Aldridge RA 'Winter Table' 1939

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'Portrait of Stanley Spencer,' Unity Spencer; she wrote her father 'needed to be alone a great deal,not because he had a ‘monkish’ temperament but simply that he had to go into himself, rummage around,walk about inside himself; this was his source of strength and conviction.'

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Some of Bridget Riley's op-art paintings make you want to fall over, some make you feel like you’re fainting, your eyes ping-ponging all over the place & others though more stately in their visual rhythms, have the eyes roaming and the brain roaming with them.

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Norman Cornish 'Self Portrait.' The most famous of the pit painters. He was once described as a 'mystic with a total grasp of what makes matter vibrate, from coal to colliery rows, from the workings 1,500ft below ground to the bus stop and the chapel at the end of the street.'

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'Holywell Park' Thomas Gainsborough. Although Gainsborough lived in Ipswich for seven years, this rare early topographical work of the artificial ponds created to supply water to Thomas Cobbold's brewery, is his only known depiction of the town.

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The Deluge remains one of the most familiar artworks of the first half of the 20th century. Winifred Knights’ 6ft canvas is packed with 21 anguished, beseeching figures and a worried-looking dog. The nominal subject is the story of Noah’s ark, without an ark in sight.

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It was Stanley Spencer who suggested his estranged wife paint her replacement's portrait.Quite why Hilda agreed is anyone's guess; she suffered a breakdown soon afterwards. Yet her portrait of Patricia is a brilliant, vigorous work, scraped and moulded in the colour of envy.

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In 1932, Walter Sickert painted 'Miss Earhart’s Arrival' from a photograph in the Daily Sketch; shown on her arrival at Hanworth Air Park in Middlesex, Amelia Earhart is almost lost in the crowd of well-wishers braving the rain to celebrate her solo crossing of the Atlantic.

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