Alon Zakaim Fine Art

Clarisse Loxton Peacock was born in Budapest, Hungry on the 7th of May 1924. She was initially educated in Budapest, but completed secondary education in Bristol after moving to the UK. Loxton Peacock later moved to London to begin her artistic training at the Chelsea School of Art before continuing her studies as a postgraduate at Central St Martins College of Art and Design.

Loxton Peacock was a great admirer of the Italian still life painter Morandi. Concentrating largely on still life painting, she stove to achieve the subtle, contemplative nature of Morandi’s work in her own images of flowers, bowls, birds and the occasional cat. Her vibrant and striking compositions show the gift she had as a bold and vivid colourist.

Loxton Peacock sold her first paintings in the 1950s to the Walker Gallery, Liverpool, and to the San Francisco Museum of Art. Following her initial exhibition in 1959, she went on to display her work in 17 shows, many of them solo exhibitions, in leading London galleries and also in France (including The Salon de Paris in 1977), Germany and New York. Her paintings always sold well, the critics were appreciative, she had a number of devoted collectors and The Salon de Paris awarded her the Medaille d’argent.

Loxton Peacock’s married Grantley Loxton Peacock while she was still very young. After his death in 1979, she then married her great friend and long standing collector of her work, Sir Anthony Grover, the chairman of Lloyd’s of London and of the Baltic Exchange. Together, they led an active social life, spending weekends at their charming house in Sandwich. When he died, she married for a third time, to Sir James Dunnett, in the Henry 7th Chapel in Wesminster Abbey.

After Sir James Dunnett died, Loxton Peacock gave up painting. As she herself was getting older, she claimed she no longer had the strength to paint standing up as she had always done. She completed her last painting was in 1996.

Clarisse Loxton Peacock (Lady Dunnett) died at her home, on the 24 July, 2004, aged 80. Her paintings hang throughout the world, in public and private collections from South Africa to the United States.

Exhibtions:

1959 Walker Gallery, London
1961 Upper Grovsner Gallery, London
1964 Bodley Gallery, New York
1966 O’Hana Gallery, London
1970 O’Hana Gallery, London
1971 Galerie des Artes, Dusseldorf
1971 Kiel, Kunstmesse, Germany
1972 Galerie des Artes, Dusseldorf
1973 Archer Gallery ( Grafton Street), London
1975 Frost & Reed, London
1977 Sailsbury Arts Festival, solo show, London
1978 Fox Fine Art, London
1982 Wymer Wayne Fine Art, London
1988 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
1988 Cadogan Contemporary, solo show, London
1995 School House Gallery, Ipswich
1996 John Innes Centre and University of East Anglia, Norwich
2007 Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London