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± Midge BRUFORD (1902-1958) Clapper Mill, Lamorna, 1937 Oil on canvas, signed and dated '37, 61 x 50cm, framed 64 x 53cm Marjory "Midge" Frances Bruford was one of six children of an Eastbourne goldsmith and a Cornish mother, Clara Bodilly. Her Cornish roots deepened through her friendship with Elizabeth Lamorna Birch, whom she met at Badminton School in Bristol. After studying at the Newlyn School of Painting under Harold Harvey and Ernest Procter, she quickly gained recognition, with her first Royal Academy painting appearing in 1924. Over the next thirty years, 31 of her works were shown at the Academy. Midge was close friends with fellow artist Dod Procter and was the subject of many of her striking portraits. She lived and worked in West Cornwall, exhibiting with the Newlyn and St. Ives artists. She was once engaged to fellow artist Richard 'Seal' Weatherby, though it didn't last. She passed away in 1958 after a long illness, which her family believed stemmed from a monkey she had rescued from a travelling organ grinder.
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