Red Admiral Neutral I imagined that it was

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

There seemed to be an insatiable demand from landowners requiring reassuring pictures of the bucolic life of their rural dependents

Despite her obvious wealth

Of the hundreds of Adams’ paintings I’ve seen over the decades this yellow explosion of sunflowers is the one I wanted to own

it is a meticulously researched historical record of the country interiors in traditional Swedish dwellings of the period

Red Admiral Neutral I imagined that it wasThis painting is in our Cecil Court gallery.