ART, ART, WHEREFORE ART THOU, ART?

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MY NEW YEAR'S PLEA

A few years ago Mick was doing some painting and decorating at a place called Smallbridge Hall in Bures. There was a lot of work to be done and the then owner, an Australian called Greg, had quite a team of people working for him. He had a guest staying with himself and his wife; I think her name was Libby or Livvy; the guest was an artist. His first name was Henry. One day Henry asked Mick if he could paint a portrait of him. Mick thought he was joking but Henry was serious. He said Mick's face was full of character; Mick's reply to this was "What you really mean is I'm bleeding ugly!"........LOL Over the course of a few days Henry took lots of photographs of Mick regaled in his decorators "whites", paintbrush in hand and then proceeded to paint the portrait. Mick pulled away from that particular job for a while as he had already promised his services on other jobs and when he went back to Smallbridge Hall Henry had left. Greg had decided to sell the the Hall and move back to Australia; I think to buy a ranch but told Mick that the painting had been sold by Henry.........it was sold in Bermuda or the Bahamas.......somewhere beginning with B! Greg sold the hall and went to Australia and that is all I know.

Why am I telling you this story?..............in the possibly vain hope that maybe one day someone will look at my blog who knows Greg (no surname) or Henry (no surname) and would be able to put me in touch with them. I would so love to see a picture of the painting....I don't even know what the title was.........to have a photograph of it would mean the world to me. I've spent many hours searching the Internet for some clue but with so little information it has proved a fruitless task. It's a very special thought for me that somewhere in the world someone has a painting of my Mick hanging on their wall.

ANY INFORMATION GRATEFULLY RECEIVED.

Mick as he would have looked about that time; the shaply calves are mine!!!!