Alfred Reginald Thomson R.A. Red Chalk Portrait Study Dighton and the Ulster Museum

and the Ulster Museum

The Waxwing

Possibly an informal portrait of a family member and not intended for sale it remained in the artists family until the Sotheby's studio sale

Florentine School 16th

Alfred Reginald Thomson R.A. Red Chalk Portrait Study Dighton and the Ulster MuseumAlfred Reginald Thomson R. A. 1894 1979 Red Chalk Portrait Study. Signed in pencil lower left. 34 by 42 cms. Alfred Reginald Thomson was born in Bangalore, India. Deaf from birth he studied at the London Art School in Kensington and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1920. He was an Official War Artist with the Royal Air Force and elected RA in 1945. He became a highly respected Society Portraitist in the 1948 Olympics he became the last