Nick Tite
Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 30.5 cm, 1988
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Editor of the Royal Academy Magazine and printer of etchings for Dante's Inferno. This contre-jour painting was done at 57 Talfourd Road. Nick Tite was the opening batsman of my Oval cricket team, given out for nought (in a controversial umpiring decision) by the P.R.A.

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 96.

I first worked with Nick Tite at Editions Alecto ten years ago on the ill-fated first version of Dante's Inferno. He later came to join me at my studio as the etching printer and co-ordinator of the Talfourd Press edition, which he is still printing pages of in spare moments while editing the RA magazine. Nick opened the batting for the Tom Phillips Eleven at my birthday party cricket match at the Oval, a fact alluded to in the cricket sweater he is wearing in this contre-jour painting.

The Portrait Works (1989),  p. 62.

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