Portrait of John Barron, 1941 Gold Silver & Bronze Please note the colours are

Please note the colours are somewhat lighter in the actual painting than shown here online

In May 1957

particularly the patterns and designs of woven fabrics in country homes around Skåne

reflected back faintly in the glass

A grande dame enjoying a late evening cigarette

Portrait of John Barron, 1941 Gold Silver & Bronze Please note the colours areThe 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.