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Physician and Medical Director. A pioneer of modern palliative care, Dame Cicely Saunders established St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 as the first research and teaching hospice linked with clinical care. St Christopher's aims to provide the relief of 'total pain' through physical, psychological, social and spiritual care. Dame Cicely was President and a Founder Trustee of the Cicely Saunders Foundation, a charity set up in 2002 to improve the care of people at the end of life, wherever they are cared for. Painted in Dame Cicely's home during regular weekly sittings this portrait is a witness to a close bond between the subject and artist and a poignant record of Dame Cicely's own battle with pain, having undergone further surgery for cancer during the sittings.
Title
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders
Date
2005
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 91.2 x W 70.7 cm
Accession number
6704
Acquisition method
Commissioned as part of the First Prize, BP Portrait Award, 2002, 2005
Work type
Painting
