Acknowledgements

The publication of this catalogue has only been made possible through a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. We thank them for their support.

It is apt that Lady Panufnik, granddaughter of Nellie Ionides (who bequeathed the gallery and her collection to the Borough in 1962), introduces this catalogue.  We thank her for her contribution and continued support.

We are especially grateful to all the individuals who have offered information, suggestions and proof read the text.  They include the staff at Orleans House Gallery; Dr T H R Cashmore and Anthony Beckles-Willson; Raymond Gill; Mavis Batey; Jennifer Melville; Philip Warner; Mary Lovell; Jane Baxter, Richmond Local Studies; Sandra Tranter; Barbara Mole and Andrew Cullip.

Sources for research are numerous and varied.  Use has been made of a number of websites including Bamber Gascoigne's Historyworld.  A select biography of published works appears at the end of the printed catalogue.

Kelvin Freeman has photographed works from the Borough Art Collection for a number of years.  We thank him for his flexibility and for photographing under sometimes difficult conditions.  Some of the works reproduced here have never been photographed and some appear for the first time since being conserved.

Jane Crawley and Jessica Smith of Barn Elms have been invaluable in editing, designing and producing this catalogue.