[Theo de Rose]

Dear June,
Thank you for your emails and photos; fantastic.
The last photo is of the portrait of a Texan Gerry painted in about 1970/71. He was a handsome man called Gerald Rose. From what I can remember it was a larger canvas.

At present I am trying to collate a list of all his works in view of contacting his old pals David Hockney and Peter Blake, to do a retrospective of his work as he was without question the only painter to paint the stars in the swinging sixties at great length and detail.

The hardest part of the family research is Gerry's dad as he left Nellie in about 1921 and they never saw him again. Trying to get links of Paul Ehrlich from US and Canada, but hard.

I have hundreds of photos of paintings so attached for all some of the more famous ones. Also a photo taken at The William Ware Gallery London 1969 of his first big exhibition. With him r to l: Charlie Drake, Gerry, Trevor Howard. Notice the drink and fag all in each hand, those where the days.

Thumbnails: Trevor Howard, David Hockney, John Wayne, Rod Steiger. Rat pack; Charlie, Gerry, Trevor.

Till soon,
Theo de Rose.