Portrait of John Barron, 1941 Gold Silver & Bronze "For a time

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an ensemble that wouldn’t look out of place in a cocktail bar today

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

He was often in drag for his London roles and Shaw wrote the part of the Dauphin in Saint Joan for him

Pat Algar studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy in the 1960s

Portrait of John Barron, 1941 Gold Silver & Bronze "For a timeThe 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.