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Christine Sumner was the Chair of the Brontë Council at the time of her death in 1992. The painter, Bohuslav Barlow, fled the Czech regime as a baby with his mother in 1955 and eventually settled in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. He paints in a realistic style.
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Keighley
Title
Christine Sumner (d.1992)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 74 x W 59.5 cm
Accession number
TA.419
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Brontë Society, 1996
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
signed- but difficult to read