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Milein Cosman lived in Frognal Gardens until her death in 2017. She was brought up in Dusseldorf and moved to Hampstead in 1939 and then entered the Slade School of Fine Art during the war. After the war she began freelance drawing for newspapers and magazines specialising in the world of music and dance. She was also a prolific book illustrator and made a series of school programmes on drawing for ITV in the late 50s. She married musician and broadcaster Hans Keller in 1961, with whom she often collaborated. In 1996 Sir Ernst Gombrich commented: Posterity will be grateful to Milein Cosman above all for the sureness of her eye, with which she has succeeded in capturing the unique quality of so many of our distinguished contemporaries. Her work can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as in the collections of the British Museum, The V&A, the Ashmolean and the Fitzwilliam.
Kyffin Williams taught art at Highgate School form 1944-73 before moving back to Anglesey to become one of Wales' best-loved artists. He had got to know Milein at the Slade. He was a Royal Academician and some of his work can be found in the RA permanent collection as well as the Government Collection, The Arts Council, and the National Museum of Wales.
Dr Ines Schlenker is an independent art historian with a special interest in degenerate and émigré art. She has written a biography of Milein Cosman: Milein Cosman: Capturing Time.

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10 Keats Grove,

Hampstead,

Greater London,

England,

NW3 2RR.