Different portraits of Britain
Jun 10, 2021
2 minutes
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
ohn Craxton is perhaps best known for his lifelong love of Greece, Crete in particular, and the friendships he formed there with the painter Niko Ghika and Paddy Leigh Fermor, whose book covers he illustrated. Yet his early life, from a large, musical and sociable Hampstead family, had him venturing into the English countryside – Sussex, Dorset and
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