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The artist says: 'Stuart Thorne is a fellow craftsman; I work with a brush and Stuart with a needle. We worked side by side as I painted the picture and he created an elegant jacket. It was an altogether positive and fun experience. Stuart’s workshop is but five minutes’ walk from my house, and I must have passed his window and seen him sitting on his bench many times over the span of some forty years! The catalyst for the painting was my wife Alice’s addiction to Stuart’s honey plus the fact that I had failed to contribute a picture for the People’s Portraits collection at Girton College, Cambridge. I know that Stuart would like to see the end product of our efforts hung in the college in 2013. Stuart hated school and burned his tie the day he left at the age of 15.
Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge
Cambridge
Title
Stuart Thorne, Tailor and Beekeeper
Date
2012
Medium
oil
Measurements
H 63 x W 63 cm (E)
Accession number
617
Acquisition method
on loan from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Work type
Painting
Signature/marks description
Signed and dated
Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge
Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0JG England
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Francis Vernon Willey (b.1884), Lord Barnby, Fellow of the Textile Institute University of Bradford -
Stuart Thorne, Tailor and Beekeeper Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge -
Stuart John Carne, CBE, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners (1988–1991) Royal College of General Practitioners -
Herbert George Mullard (d.1976) Christ's Hospital of Abingdon -
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham, GCB, CBE, DFC, AFC, DL, FRAeS Royal Air Force Museum -
Sir Rodney Sweetnam (1927–2013) Hunterian Museum -
Sir Reginald Murley (1916–1997) Hunterian Museum