Interior with Girl Reading (c.1955). Stanley Clare Grayson (British, 1890-1967). Oil on canvas. Colchester and Ipswich Museums.
Stanley, a traveller portrait artist describes himself as single, living at 66 Mount Pleasant, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, with six other painters, a secretary, matron and three servants. His known paintings are dated in the 1950’s.
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.” – Maya Angelou
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