Rupert Pease (British 1906 - 1945) Portrait of a man 'Ahmad'...

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£300

Rupert Pease (British 1906 - 1945) Portrait of a man 'Ahmad' Watercolour 31 x 25cm Signed lower right and 1934 Rupert Pease was a rubber planter in Malaya during the 1920-40s and a well known painter of local Malay scenes. He died at Changi Internment Camp in 1945. His sister was Madame Dorothy Fera (Feenie) Tajasque, wife of Georges Tajasque, Chef du Cabinet to Marie Antoine Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo China during the period 1928-1934. A portrait by Pease of the Late Dr John Herbert Bowyer, is in the Singapore General Hospital Collection, of which he was administrator from 1941-44; the Adam Park Project Museum, Singapore, and several other portraits and sketches by Pease are in private and public collections. A portrait by Edward Charles Chitty, of Rupert Pease (1943), whilst he was in Changi, is in the Imperial War Museum, United Kingdom.