He never set out to flatter, whether he was painting the Queen or one of his daughters and he had a notoriously bad relationship with his brother Clement. Because his portraits and nudes are so sensational it isn’t generally known that he also painted landscapes and garden plants. He often painted the buddleia and bamboo from his overgrown garden in Notting Hill. Jeffrey Bernard remarked “He has cracked the nut of how to live a double life”. That comment, which was made about his private life (and none was more private) could equally apply to his life as a painter.
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