ARTIST - Portrait of the young man as an artist (Perugia 1953)

PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG MAN AS AN ARTIST

Photographs by Timothy Hunloke in Perugia (1953)

In 1953 Giorgio Quintini, son of the Vice-Questore of Perugia, was twenty. It is clear from these photographs that his horizons went beyond those the provincial capital of Umbria. Much of his social life was centred around some of the young people who were attending Perugia's university for foreigners, and it is in this period that he perfected his knowledge of French and English both of which he read and spoke fluently.

One of his close friends at the time, about whom he used to speak with great affection, was Timothy Henry Hunloke, who was just 6 months older than Giorgio. Hunloke's father Henry had been a Conservative MP and his mother, Lady Anne Cavendish, was a daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire. Timothy Hunloke was just one of various friends from the British Upper and Upper-Middle classes whom Giorgio had at the time, including Robert Balniel, the current 29th Earl of Crawfurd & Balcarres, but it was Timothy who he recalled with the greatest affection.

Hunloke's photographs show a young Giorgio Quintini posing as an artist.

Brandishing three paint brushes

With his wooden drawing manikin and an art book opened at Joan Mirò

Artists wore caftans