Study for the portrait of Lord Scarman by Tom Phillips
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The Portrait of Lord Scarman, currently hanging in Senate House, was commissioned to commemorate the Chancellorship of Lord Scarman from 1977-89. Lord Scarman was a judge and Lord Appeal from 1977-86, and author of The Scarman Report, The Brixton Disorders 10-12 April 1981. In the background of both the study and the final painting is a portrait of Mark Douglas, the Rastafarian who ran the restaurant in South London where Tom Phillips and Lord Scarman lunched during sittings.