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Painted by Thubron while he was a student at Sunderland School of Art, this appears to be the self portrait he entered (as no. 440) in the ‘Artists of the Northern Counties’ exhibition of 1937 at the Laing Art Gallery. It seems likely that he never retrieved it, since it was only formally catalogued at the Laing in 1986, by then without adequate information save the 1937 exhibition date. The sitter's identity was confirmed during an Art UK Art Detective discussion in 2021.

Laing Art Gallery

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Title

Self Portrait

Date

1937

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 47 x W 37.5 cm

Accession number

TWCMS : M5103

Acquisition method

untraced find, recorded 1986

Work type

Painting

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