The Last Bohemians.
Lately, I have been sourcing as much information as I could about The Two Roberts. The artist Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun.
The linked (short) documentary made by Ken Russell, was the first of some films recorded by Russell about visual artists for the BB´s arts standard, Monitor.
In the record Allan McClelland narrates this 1959 film by Ken Russell - a double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.
MacBryde and Colquhoun are pulled along by a horse-drawn cart before taking their paintings into a timbered cottage in the Suffolk countryside. It's close enough to London for sales purposes, and cheap enough at a pound a week to let them paint full-time. We’re told they will continue working there ‘until they find a studio for even less than a pound’. They stayed until 1961.
Watch here.
For those that would like to know a bit more about The two Roberts and this story of love, I link below an article from The Guardian.
The Last Bohemians by Roger Bristow.













