Corked Gold Silver & Bronze I imagined that it was

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

ending up as the Keep of Tigers at London Zoo

I’ve bought every Trotin I’ve ever seen at auction in the last ten years

a rather nice view of pleasure boats on the Thames

I did say I wouldn’t be boring you to death with biographical information that can be found on our website but in Trotin’s case the story is just too good

Corked Gold Silver & Bronze I imagined that it wasThis is a jolly little chap that stirs a lot of memories for me. Punch magazine was still a part of life when I was growing up. The annual would get passed around elderly relatives at Christmas and old book shelves in back bedrooms would be mouldering with bound volumes of unread copies. The artists who filled those pages were household names in their day and none more so than Phil May. Described as the Grandfather of British illustration (thank you