#Latest news with #ChelseaArtsBallEvening Standard21-05-2025EntertainmentEvening StandardFormer home of British artist Arthur Croft Mitchell on sale for first time in more than a century'When my uncle [Terence] died, the portrait of my grandmother in the moth costume she wore to the Chelsea Arts Ball the night she met my grandfather was still hanging on the wall, along with the many portraits that followed as she became his muse. Letters and photographs of artists' trips to France and accounts of living through the blitz still filled drawers and cupboards. The toys my uncle and father left behind them when evacuated to America during the Second World War were still in the drawers where my grandmother had packed them away.
Evening Standard21-05-2025EntertainmentEvening StandardFormer home of British artist Arthur Croft Mitchell on sale for first time in more than a century'When my uncle [Terence] died, the portrait of my grandmother in the moth costume she wore to the Chelsea Arts Ball the night she met my grandfather was still hanging on the wall, along with the many portraits that followed as she became his muse. Letters and photographs of artists' trips to France and accounts of living through the blitz still filled drawers and cupboards. The toys my uncle and father left behind them when evacuated to America during the Second World War were still in the drawers where my grandmother had packed them away.
21-05-2025
