Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]According to US writer Patricia Cornwell about 20 years ago, she postulated the idea that the infamous Whitechapel serial killer was the well known painter Walter Sickert. Naturally, it's a theory which is totally unprovable right now, and probably for ever. However, I was doing some work on our art - paintings, prints and old photographs we have that we never got around to hanging. We have been buying what we think is painterly art for over forty years in various auctions, including furniture ones, which are cheap, sometimes quite interesting and do turn up the odd surprising item. However, due to our downsizing, we have a fair bit stored in a corner of a room, and something has to be done with it before I shuffle off and join the Choir Invisible. In going through it, I came across a couple of nice woodcuts from an artist called Mabel Allington Royds - see wikipedia - who it transpires was taught by Ms Cornwell's chief Ripper suspect.? It's not worth a lot, but in turn is worth a lot more than we actually paid for it. This lady worked in India and this picture is called "The Donkey Boy" and is probably a scene from Varanasi (then Benares) in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Nice to know that another copy of it is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/The+Donkey+Boy.jpg.html Can be seen larger. iPhone SE Douglas