A Study in Green Black & White Brook painted his first wife

Brook painted his first wife Peggy many times but this coy little portrait is so intimate a study

A totally original image - not a copy or based on an existing cover

that Codner had a particular attachment to this work

We had fun framing this stunning chanteuse and settled on an extremely grand eighteenth century portrait frame that used to house a Gainsborough

A Study in Green Black & White Brook painted his first wifeThis was presumably the original painting for a magazine or book cover, more innocent than most as much of his work for the pulp fiction titles was sensational bordering on the alarming. Unless of course the hapless blonde is about to be savaged by the parrot.