Dried Sunflowers Still Lifes When the Thames was a

When the Thames was a working river

I’m not sure if this is a portrait from life or Levenson’s imagined ideal

sitting demurely in a beautiful silk gown it must surely be a coming out or at least a coming-of-age portrait

This is a rarer work

In our Cecil Court gallery

Dried Sunflowers Still Lifes When the Thames was aAn artist whose career mirrors so many of her generation. Pat Algar studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Academy in the 1960s, a bright and promising student she married soon after graduation and moved to Cornwall never to be heard of again. Her studio sale in a Cornish auction house said as much as any museum retrospective could about the trajectory of her career. Most of the lots were painted in the last forty years of her life and