James Lloyd sold while simultaneously the towns and

while simultaneously the towns and countryside races past

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

an anonymous 1950s beauty with no past

The artist Karin van Leyden had an extraordinary life

a bright and promising student she married soon after graduation and moved to Cornwall never to be heard of again

James Lloyd sold while simultaneously the towns and"The first piece I saw by James was his portrait of Paul Smith in the National Portrait Gallery. It is a masterpiece. I particularly admire his attention to composition and the under standing of where the viewers eye needs to be led."