Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician mb-code 42-26407509 9th August 1951

9th August 1951

It was delivered new with bodywork by Hooper & Co

the Prime Minister

to promote his new film

The BBC had commissioned the Beatles to write a song for the UK's contribution

Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician mb-code 42-26407509 9th August 1951Frederick Richard Pickersgill, artist and Royal Academician, 1882. Pickersgill (1820 1900) was a painter of historical subjects as well as scenes from art and literature, contemporary life and the Bible. He became a Royal Academician in 1850, the year in which he painted the work generally regarded as his masterpiece, 'Samson Betrayed'. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science,