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Details Payment Shipping Terms of Sale View in RoomA fine 20th Century portrait of a refined gentleman with impressively groomed eyebrows. The artist has signed and dated to the lower left corner and the painting has been presented in a 20th Century frame. On canvas board.
Slight paint loss to the upper left quadrant.
Juliet Kathleen Pannett MBE FRSA (née Somers; 15 July 1911 – 22 August 2005) was an English portrait painter.
Born in Hove, East Sussex, Pannett started painting at three, and wanted to be a professional artist by seventeen. She trained at Brighton College of Art in the 1920s under Louis Ginnett, and received her first artistic commission at eighteen to draw local Sussex characters for the Sussex County Magazine. Pannett maintained a studio in Hove and was elected a member of the Society of Graphic Artists in 1934. She was a professional artist until her marriage in 1938.
Pannett married Major Rick Pannett who had been injured in the First World War when he was shot in the mouth. The bullet had pierced his cheek and missed all his bones.[4] Pannett gave up painting after the birth of her children. Suffering from depression, it was alleviated when she resumed painting. In 1949 the family moved to Croydon where she built a studio in her garage. The Pannett family later moved to Angmering in Sussex in 1964.
Among her subjects were Field-Marshal Montgomery, film director Jean Cocteau, athlete Chris Chataway, Louis Armstrong and Leonard Bernstein.
Before the televised proceedings of the House of Commons Pannett was employed by the Illustrated London News from 1957 to 1964 to sketch the events of the House. Sitting in the gallery of the Commons Pannett drew such historically significant events as Winston Churchill's last appearance in the house in 1964. Pannett later formally drew several other British Prime Ministers, including Alec Douglas-Home, who told her that he had "the biggest head in London" and could never find a hat to fit him. Later Prime Ministers painted by Pannett included Edward Heath, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher.
She painted Queen Elizabeth II in 1989 for the Chartered Insurance Institute.
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