Alfred Reginald Thomson R.A. Red Chalk Portrait Study Dighton Portrait Miniature Painting of a

Portrait Miniature Painting of a lady wearing a white dress and pearl necklace

Bérain the younger planned the funeral ceremonies at the death of the Dauphin and afterwards made the designs for the obsequies of Louis XIV

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The Waxwing

Originally trained as a dancer

Alfred Reginald Thomson R.A. Red Chalk Portrait Study Dighton Portrait Miniature Painting of aAlfred Reginald Thomson R. A. 1894 1979 Red Chalk Portrait Study. Signed in pencil lower left. 34 by 42 cms. Alfred Reginald Thomson was born in Bangalore, India. Deaf from birth he studied at the London Art School in Kensington and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1920. He was an Official War Artist with the Royal Air Force and elected RA in 1945. He became a highly respected Society Portraitist in the 1948 Olympics he became the last