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It sparks all manner of Hiraeth for me as although I live in a particularly verdant Welsh county

possibly a device to discretely spare his sitter’s blushes

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Medium Details: Ink and 23ct Champagne gold leaf on 640gsm smooth watercolour paper

it took me some time to work it out but she’s loosening her hair from behind and it has fallen over her face

Portrait of a Debutante Black & White It sparks all manner of"This rather contemplative young woman however is a later work, a serious commission for one of the leading physicians of the day. Her father was Joseph Nassim the consultant physician to St. Georges and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital after the war. The shy young teenager is his daughter, sitting demurely in a beautiful silk gown it must surely be a coming out or at least a coming of age portrait. Later in life she was to marry the sculptor