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John Townsend
1930–2013
Painter, notably of portraits, also of landscapes, born in Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, where he settled at Hoveringham. His father was art director at the printing firm Thomas Forman, his grandfather the Nottinghamshire and England cricketer John Gunn, who helped set up the cricket bat firm Gunn and Moore.
Text Source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)