Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…]uite good to actually see her and then go away and do the painting. And they wanted the painting done Goya-like which I did. I did the first one like Gainsborough and it wasn’t right. I did all the lace and everything like that. You know, I had to do a mock. Can you do this? Yes, I can do this. So g[…]

Eileen Diss

[…]her oddly enough had known during the war, he worked in Ambulances during the Blitz in the control centre, which was in Shoreditch and quite near the Gainsborough studio and one of his fellow controllers where they used to sit night after night was a really nice man was an art director at Gainsborou[…]

Rosamund John (Silkin)

[…]I didn't like bones so he sent them filleted. Jimmy was in The Black Watch with Peter Donald but he got an ulcer and that was how he managed to go to Gainsborough and he got a contract because they knew he was on the up and up at that stage nobody had heard of him and he started throwing his weight […]
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