Creasey's Farm in June Gold Silver & Bronze Brook painted his first wife

Brook painted his first wife Peggy many times but this coy little portrait is so intimate a study

Unframed print

…” I haven’t yet read Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle but I intend to and hope to be all the better for it especially as I like putting birds on tigers

He was a Swiss artist who trained in Paris under the great academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Académie des Beaux-Arts

I hadn’t realised before researching this painting of Capri that the island was known as such a bohemian colony of artists and writers

Creasey's Farm in June Gold Silver & Bronze Brook painted his first wifeThis painting is in our Cecil Court gallery