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...flatter anyone," says British-born Portrait Painter Gerald Brockhurst, 59. "I just paint them in the best possible light." In Manhattan last week a show of 24 of his oils and portrait drawings shed Brockhurst's best light on 24 Americans, mostly socialites and businessmen...
...Brockhurst painted his subjects, including Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, Mrs. William Hale Harkness and Manufacturer
Robert Wood Johnson (Johnson & Johnson), with the slick competence of an accomplished academician. He also endowed most of them with the typical seraphic Brockhurst expression: the clear, luminous eyes and smooth complexions that made him the favorite portraitist of well-heeled town & country Britons for nearly 25 years...
Young Botticelli. Brockhurst has had a taste for Florentine elegance since his schooldays. "The young Botticelli," his fellow art students called him. After "winning," as he says himself, "all the medals and scholarships the Royal Academy Schools in London award," he got his own studio; within a few years he established himself as Europe's most fashionable and highest-paid portraitist. In 1939, he left England to do a few commissions in the U.S., stayed on during World War II, finally became a U.S. citizen...
...Brockhurst fees are a steep $4,000 to $10,000 (depending on size). He "limits" his output to about 20 portraits a year, sometimes politely refuses to do a face he doesn't like. But he never lacks for customers, never worries, at his prices, where his next paint & canvas are coming from...