RP Toby Wiggins’ portrait of ‘Mary Spencer Watson’ (1913 – 2006) has recently been hung in Dunshay Manor in Dorset, UK.
“It was made in her studio (in 2003) alongside the house and was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (courtesy of the BP Portait Award), London in 2004. Mary made the journey up to see it and was greatly encouraging to me, both as the daughter of a Royal Academician and portrait painter and as a highly accomplished sculptor herself. An inspiration and mentor in many ways.
She will now greet the guests who stay in her beautifully restored home which she bequeathed to the @landmarktrust.”
-Toby Wiggins RP
