• Fred Cuming obituary

    Fred Cuming obituary
    Landscape artist and teacher who captured the beauty of England’s cloudy and rainy skiesOn 2 June 1953, the artist Fred Cuming, who has died aged 92, stood on the roof of the Old Admiralty Building in London sketching the coronation procession as it passed down Whitehall. “I got a very nice write-up for that painting,” he mused in an interview nearly 70 years later. He ascribed the success to two things: first, he had turned down the offer from newsmen also standing on the roof

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