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Portrait of Betty Curnow  1942	Wystan Curnow  1942	Wystan Curnow  1941
Mother and child (Jean and Anton Jones)  1942	Joyce Milligan  1941	Timmy  1952
Mother and child  1945	Portrait of Douglas Angus  1940	Quentin Angus  1942-44
Portrait of Fred Jones  circa 1940	Self-portrait  circa 1944	Self-portrait at Clifton  circa 1945
Self-portrait (grisaille)  1941	Self-portrait (nude, seated)  circa 1942	Study for carving torso (nude self portrait)  circa 1942
Grisaille nude self-portrait (standing)  1942	Self-portrait (with moth and caterpillar)  1943	Self-portrait (with leaves)  1945
Self-portrait  1947

Timmy

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Timmy Angus married Rita Angus’s brother Douglas, and Rita and Timmy soon became close friends.
 
In 1952, Rita announced that it was time to paint Timmy’s portrait – only days after Timmy’s mother had died. Timmy protested but eventually gave in: ‘You couldn’t argue with Rita. Once she made up her mind about something, that was that.’

Timmy sat for her portrait over a period of two weeks – days when she was preoccupied with the loss of her mother. Later, she came to feel that her sister-in-law had captured her grief in this sensitive watercolour.