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Description: | This portrait of Kenneth and his Sister Gillian was painted around 1942-1943. E Waldron West painted portraits of many famous people including Richard Branson. The children's Father met Waldron West in Worcester. He found out that Waldron was so poor he had once passed-out from a lack of food, so invited him to stay with the family. During his stay Waldron painted a portrait of the childrens Mother Mrs Lane. Mrs Lane didn't like the painting and destroyed it. Kenneth's spaniel dog June also appears in the portrait. Gillian is holding a doll called Gobby. During World War Two Gobby had to be rescued from Moreton-in-the-Marsh railway station. Gillian had dropped Gobby in the station. The family used their precious petrol rations to drive back to the station to collect Gobby.
An oil painting showing two children, a boy and a girl, seated either side of a dog. They are sitting on a small grassy mound with a rural backdrop. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Fine arts Dogs Family Children (age group) Rural areas | Temporal: | 1942-1943
World War II (1939-1945) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Waldron West; E | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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