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Bernard Blane Withey:
Bernard Blane Withey – self-portrait, 1931
Framed (ref: 6639)
Signed with initials, dated 1931

Tags: Bernard Blane Withey oil men portraits 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Modern British Art at Mercers' Hall Quattrocenta

Provenance: With the artist's wife until 2013; private collection

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.286.

Exhibited:​Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 1932 (?)

The artist wears an artfully-contrived version of fashionable dress that is conventional, even conservative in style, but which employs unusual, eye-catching colours, suggesting that he is a man of aesthetic inclinations and singular taste.

We are grateful to Jayne Shrimpton for her assistance.

Bernard Blane Withey as a young man

The picture in its frame: