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Ruskin Spear

1911–1990

Haute Couture 1954
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Biography

Ruskin Spear, CBE, RA (30 June 1911 – 16 January 1990) was an English painter and teacher of art, regarded as one of the foremost British portrait painters of his day. He is the father of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member Roger Ruskin Spear.

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Snow Scene

Ruskin Spear
1946

Mr Hollingbery’s Canary

Ruskin Spear
1950

Professor Carel Weight

Ruskin Spear
1961

Haute Couture

Ruskin Spear
1954

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Rodrigo Moynihan
1951
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