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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 4to PAPERBACK / Exhibition Catalogue in Good+ condition,139pp, Colour & Black-and-White Illustrations. Incscription dated February 1996 and signed by Hilda [Downton, his sister]. "Painter & draughtsman, born in Erith, Kent. He read art history at Cambridge, 1925, gaining a first-class honours degree. Then entered Slade School of Fine Art, 1928, under Tonks & Steer. A private income enabled Downton to travel widely in Western Europe in the period before World War II. What he saw in museums, his reading and understanding of the Italian Quattrocento encouraged him to develop a style of portraiture, mainly in tempera, of meticulous heightened realism. The artist was a keen Morrisian Socialist & pacifist and a conscientious objector". Signed by Author(s).…