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Although at least two
portrait drawings by his father were exhibited in Dirk’s
lifetime, it is thought that he sat only once for an official
study. This was commissioned by the National Portrait
Gallery in 1986 from the Royal Academician David Tindle,
who spent four days with Dirk at Clermont. The finished
painting, in tempera on canvas, hung at the NPG and was
one of four works lent temporarily to No 10 Downing Street
shortly after Tony Blair became Prime Minister.
A preliminary drawing in pencil was exhibited at the 1988
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In late 2006 the
artist released from his studio a pre-study, which was shown
by the Redfern Gallery at the annual Art London fair in
Chelsea. It carried a price tag of £30,000.
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