1923 Born in Manchester
1941-42 Studied at Edinburgh College of Art (Andrew Grant Scholar)
1942-46 RNVR
1961 Slade School of Fine Art (part time)
Member of art panel to implement Coldstream report - NCDAD
Member of Arts Council
Member of Eastern Arts
1976 Reader, UCL
1983 Professor, UCL
1985-88 Slade Professor - Director, Slade School
2016 Died, Suffolk
Selected One Man Exhibitions
1975 Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk
1980 Arts Coucil Retrospective Exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London, and touring
1984, 89, 94, 98, 2003, '07, '10, '13, '21, '22 Browse & Darby, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
1981 Eight Figurative Painters, Mellon Center for British Art, Yale and LA Louver Galleries, Los Angeles
1983 The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
1984 A Singular Vision, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
1994 Five Protagonists, Browse & Darby, London
2010 A Critic's Choice-selected by Andrew Lambirth, Browse & Darby, London
Work in Public Collections
Arts Council
St Catherines Council, Cambridge
Gipsy Hill College
Government Art Collection
Goverment House, Singapore
Huddersfield, Municipal Gallery
Kings College, London
Norwich Castle Museum
Reuters
University College, London
Government Art Collection
Imperial War Museum
National Portrait Gallery
Somerville College, Oxford
Stuart House, Cambridge
Tate Gallery, London
University College, London