Janet Chapman was a commissioned portrait. Janet and Malcom Chapman were the young couple who moved into Christine’s apartment in Bournemouth, #9 Riviera, East Overcliff Drive, after she moved to her house on Copsewood Avenue (see her biography). They soon became great friends of the family. I recall that occasionally, after Christine had moved to the South of France, they would very kindly take me out of my boarding school on the weekends for a good meal and a bit of time in the outside world.

Janet was a very tall and strikingly beautiful woman, well portrayed in this painting. Appropriately, the background depicts the English Channel as seen from that same flat on Bournemouth’s East Overcliff Drive. Unfortunately, I think the old color photograph that I scanned for this image has lost some of its color due to age, even though I’ve tried to bring some of that back.