GARNET RUSKIN WOLSELEY (1884-1967) PORTRAIT OF JEAN KENT AT THE WINDMILL THEATRE Signed, oil on

GARNET RUSKIN WOLSELEY (1884-1967) PORTRAIT OF JEAN KENT AT THE WINDMILL THEATRE Signed, oil on canvas 35 x 29cm. Provenance: A gift in lieu of rent from the artist to the vendor's father. Wolseley was the gentleman's tenant in Chelsea. The sitter, apparently depicted at the age of sixteen, was born Jean Carr in 1921 and became a dancer at The Windmill Theatre in 1934 on a weekly wage of £2. It took a bizarre role as Max Miller's stooge in the stage review Apple Sauce in the late 1930's to raise her profile enough to go into films and she went on to make 37 movies with a golden period in the late 1940's when she appeared in 18 films in just five years. Latterly, she appeared as love interest for both Albert and Harold in Galton and Simpson's Steptoe and Son in the early 1970's and made her last film, Shout at the Devil, in 1976. ++ Good condition