Timothy Behrens

Timothy Behrens (born 1937) is a British painter resident in Spain.

Behrens was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art and formed part of the tightly knit group of artists and intellectuals who frequented the Colony Room (John Deakin's famous photograph, Lunch at Wheelers, is of Behrens, Freud, Bacon, Auerbach and Andrews^[1]), the infamous Soho drinking club where Lucian Freud and others such as Francis Bacon spent much time during the late 1950s and early 1960s.^[2] Behrens posed in Freud's small Paddington studio in 1962 (Red-Haired Man on a Chair^[3]) and 1963 and was also the subject of a portrait by Michael Andrews.^[4] In 1961 he contributed to Patrick Swift's(whose portrait he painted in 1960^[5]) X magazine. He lives and works in Spain.

References

^ Photograph by John Deakin, Lunch at Wheelers: Timothy Behrens, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews, 1962 [1]
^ The Independent, Monday, 20 December 2004
^ Red-Haired Man on a Chair
^ Michael Andrews, Portrait of Timothy Behrens, 1962
^ 'He was having his portrait painted by Tim Behrens' - John McGahern , "The Bird Swift" , Love Of The World, ,Essays , Edited by Stanley van der Ziel, 2009.

External links

BBC, Your Paintings, A Lunch Party, 1961, Timothy Behrens, [2]
National Portrait Gallery, London, Timothy Behrens by John Vere Brown [3]
Michael Andrews, Portrait of Timothy Behrens, 1962 [4]
A Lunch Party, 1961, Timothy Behrens [5]
Christies: Timothy Behrens, Man in bed [6]
The Independent, Lucian Freud sale which includes portrait of Behrens, Red-Haired Man on a Chair [7]
Wordpress, 1st preview of forthcoming book on Behrens [8]
Wordpress, 2nd preview of forthcoming book on Behrens [9]
António Cerveira Pinto, T. Behrens and the so-called School of London, CkS Artport [10]

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Name	Behrens, Timothy
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Short description	British painter
Date of birth	1937
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