a more overtly personal portrait than those taken of the artist’s two principal muses, his first and second wives conveying various characters of femininity, this relatively early one is of his mother. Brockhurst (1890-1978) was raised Birmingham where he attended the Municipal School of Art before progressing to the Royal Academy Schools in London, in 1907. During the First World War he lived in Ireland where he met Augustus John, whose influence perhaps also contributes to setting this portrait apart from the more ethereal pre-Raphaelite and Renaissance air of stillness more usually associated with Brockhurst,
etching on wove paper, only state of an edition of 55, 87 x 85 mm. (3 7/16 x 3 3/8 in), signed in pencil lower right, [Fletcher 15],