Gallery One - 1 - Sir William Walton

Philip Dawes Fine Art Gallery

Gallery One - Portraits - 1

Sir William Walton, O.M.

Picture title: Sir William Walton - the music of his mountains in the background.
Painted in Ischia, Italy 1979. Oil on canvas. Size: 39-3/4" x 31-1/2" (100cm x 80cm).
Exhibited and sold at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London 1986.
The artist was introduced to Sir William and Lady Walton in 1979 by Bolivar,
the famous artist of Ischia, whose portraits come later in this gallery.

Note: This photograph of the painting has lost much of the fine detail and colour subtlety.

Go to the William Walton Trust: http://www.waltontrust.org.uk/
Lady Walton has created a garden of paradise in their grounds in Ischia, and has done
much to retain remembrance of her late husband's music: www.lamortella.it
Another resource centre dedicated to the life and works of the important
British composer Sir William Walton: http://www.williamwalton.net /

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