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18th July 2025

Doris Zinkeisen (above, standing, with her sister, 1954) was widowed in 1946 and moved to Suffolk, where she lived with  her twin daughters Janet and Anne Graham Johnstone, neither of whom married and both of whom became well-known children's book illustrators. There she returned to painting theatrical high society subjects until her death in 1991. She is remembered for the unusual parallel artistic career she shared with her sister (something her own daughters replicated) and the way their work "encompassed the extremes of twentieth-century experience: from the glamour and pleasure of high society and theatreland, to the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust". 

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