Corked Gold Silver & Bronze a rather nice view of

a rather nice view of pleasure boats on the Thames

alongside an illustrated volume

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

so it is offered on the merits of the painting

Corked Gold Silver & Bronze a rather nice view ofThis is a jolly little chap that stirs a lot of memories for me. Punch magazine was still a part of life when I was growing up. The annual would get passed around elderly relatives at Christmas and old book shelves in back bedrooms would be mouldering with bound volumes of unread copies. The artists who filled those pages were household names in their day and none more so than Phil May. Described as the Grandfather of British illustration (thank you