Jacob KramerGeorge Parker 1928

Jacob Kramer 1892 - 1962

T03964 George Parker1928

Oil on canvas 764 x 637 (30 1/4 x 25 1/8)
Not inscribed
Presented by Mr. John Parker 1985
Prov: Mr. John Parker 1970, by descent from his father George Parker
Lit: Millie Kramer, Jacob Kramer: A Memorial Volume, 1969, p.29, pl.34

In 1967 the sitter wrote his memories of his first meeting with the painter Jacob Kramer, at the request of Millie Kramer, the artist's sister, who was compiling A Memorial Volume:

The first time I met Jacob Kramer was on the 11th December 1921. That evening I had an engagement to give a recital of songs at Collingham Bridge [West Yorkshire] for Kester, the cartoonist of the Yorkshire Evening Post. He had made an appointment for me to meet and travel to Collingham that afternoon with Jacob. When I first saw Jacob, I was very much impressed with his well dressed appearance and his dignified looks .... That same day he asked me if I would sit for him the following evening at his studio in Mount Preston [Leeds]. I well remember going there. Jacob was a very long time getting me into the position he wanted with regard to the light which was from an incandescant gas mantle… (read more)