Portrait of Artist's Mother on display at Manchester Art Gallery

Leonard McComb’s Portrait of Artist’s Mother, which he considered his finest oil painting, ‘My Rembrandt’ – and has been gifted by his sister Anne to the people of Manchester – is now on prominent display at Manchester Art Gallery in Trading Station, an exhibition about the history of tea, coffee and chocolate.

McComb painted his mother Delia Bridget in early 1993 in his sister Delia’s house in Chorlton, Manchester, working with patience and great concentration for the whole of January and early February. The work was admired by no less than Sister Wendy Beckett who wrote of it: “Leonard McComb has painted his mother with affectionate respect. This is a brave woman, unafraid of the future.  With true artistic objectivity, McComb enjoys the variety of the marks and the hues that age has left on her face and hands. No young girl could appear more brightly.”

For more details about the exhibition visit manchesterartgallery.org