Mrs Hilary Hugh-Jones
Oil on board (in 13 sections), 61 x 61 overall cm, 1980
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Mrs Hilary Hugh-Jones
Oil on board, 13.4 x 13.4 cm, 1980
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Resident of Camberwell Grove, the wife of a physician. Painted at 57 Talfourd Road, each panel was made in one sitting of two hours.

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 85.

Hilary Hugh-Jones is the wife of a distinguished physician at King's College Hospital. This commissioned portrait was done over a period of about six months, the central image being repainted several times while the small surrounding studies were each painted at a single sitting. The whole, framed and assembled, pleased neither the sitter nor husband and hung in my studio for a long time until spotted by another medical man (Alan Levantin) whose study of psychological aspects of human character he seemed to find echoed in the work.

Since I had painted one more small panel than necessary to the ensemble I chose one to keep for myself. Gentle Reader, did I choose right?

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 34-35.

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