Portrait of John Barron, 1941 show_depth an immaculate courtier

an immaculate courtier

The clogs are a nice touch

This painting is currently in our offsite store

So I wasn’t watching the countryside go by - but it was another window on the world

Portrait of John Barron, 1941 show_depth an immaculate courtierThe artist is presumably one of those illustrators or caricaturists who made a good living filling magazines and club walls with portraits of the stars of the day. Drawn in 1941 while the sitter was serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy it has all the late Deco style of Hollywood studio portraits of the previous decades. The subject is the English character actor John Barron (1920 2004) depicted at the tender age of 21 so perhaps it was a present.