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Preliminary Sketch for Portrait of Miss J D Browne CBE MA by Sir Stanley Spencer

 Preliminary sketch of Miss J D Browne, CBE MA, Principal, Coventry College of Education, 1959
Accession Code: wu0369w
Title: Preliminary Sketch for Portrait of Miss J D Browne CBE MA
Date completed: 1959
Medium: Drawing
Location Name: University House
Location Description:

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Miss Browne, the subject, has commented thus on the sitting, 'Rejecting the offer of some better quality paper, he tried a pen and ink sketch but discarded it immediately, saying 'that won't do, it makes you look like a Borough Councillor'. Spencer went on to make a portrait in pencil of Miss Browne. A full account by Miss Browne of Sitting for Stanley is published in the catalogue to the Collection of Works of Art of the University of Warwick.