Ann Goldberg (now Parker)
Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 45.7 cm, 1963
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This portrait was painted at 57 Talfourd Road when I was still at Camberwell School of Art. Ann was at that time a teacher of Geography at a convent school. More than fifteen sittings produced this strange, boldly tentative result in 1963.

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 24.

 Now Mrs Ann Parker, the sitter works for UNESCO in Switzerland. The portrait was painted at 57 Talfourd Road.

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 81.

Ann Parker (née Goldberg)
Oil on canvas, 61 x 41.2 cm, 1989
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This second portrait (made over a quarter century later than the first) in which the same sitter sits in the same chair in the same house, is the result of my taking advantage of Ann's visit to England (she now works for UNESCO in Geneva) for the graduation of her daughter at Sussex University. Over lunch I persuaded her to give up her only free day to sit once more. The picture was painted in one sitting from 10am to 4pm while, on the radio (from Edgbaston) her home country (Australia) was bowling England out with disgraceful ease.

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 25.

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