BRUCE, George John Done 1930-2022

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph & Times of 16 April 2022: BRUCE George John Done died peacefully at home on 7th April, aged 92. Devoted husband of the late Jeanne, beloved brother of Jean and Margaret, and the late Lætitia, Katherine and Robert, much loved uncle and friend, he will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved him. Portrait, landscape and still life artist, a former President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, his paintings will continue to bring colour to the world. Always enthusiastic and energetic, George loved adventurous sports and was windsurfing into his 90th year. Private cremation. A memorial celebration is planned for later in the year. Family flowers only please, donations, if desired, to the Artists' General Benevolent Institution ... may be sent to J H Kenyon Funeral Directors, 279 Kensington High Street...

He was uncle of the present Lady BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH (family name Bruce-Winkler) b 1973 and s of 7th Lord BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH 1883-1967 and Violet Dorothy Evelyn 1887-1976 d of Richard Henry DONE 1851-1925 by his 1872 m reg Q2 London to Louisa d [c1848-]1930 d of Francis DAUBENY. He m 2007 Mrs Jeanne Cowles Fleischmann, who d 2010, widow of Peter F. Fleischmann, of New York.

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times Readers' Lives section 18 June 2022:

E X T R A C T

George Bruce, 92: Portrait artist, windsurfer and colourful raconteur
...A sense of theatricality came naturally to the artist. He was among the last portraitists in the European “grand manner”, and the obvious go-to for his depictions of the great and the good. They included bishops, archbishops, high court judges, masters of Cambridge colleges, the chairmen of FTSE 100 companies, governors of banks and presidents of medical colleges. Women, usually strong-featured and glamorous, made up about a third...
...Born in Kensington in 1930 to George Bruce, the seventh Lord Balfour of Burleigh, a banker, and Dorothy (née Done), George was the second youngest of six children. He and his siblings, Laetitia, Katherine, Jean, Robert and Margaret, were brought up in Kennet House and then Brucefield House, large 18th-century houses in Clackmannanshire....
...it was not until his late seventies that he finally married, reigniting a flame, Jeanne, from the 1950s, a family friend whom he had visited with his sister in New York....He revisited Jeanne to paint her second husband, Peter F. Fleischmann, a former chairman of The New Yorker. Years later, after Jeanne was widowed, he bumped into her in the Connaught hotel in London where he was having a drink with a friend. She was a few years older than George, an elegant blonde with a low, seductive voice that brought to mind Lauren Bacall, and had twice married so well that she claimed never to have seen the inside of a supermarket. In 2003 they bought a house together in Chevington, Suffolk. Four years later they married....
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/george-bruce-92-portrait-artist-windsurfer-and-colourful-raconteur-ck5mf7959

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Just out of curiosity, if not for female succession, would he have succeeded to the title?

Thanks.

Brooke

[Richard R]

Yes

[bx...@yahoo.com]

Thanks, Richard.

Brooke

On Monday, 20 June 2022 at 03:34:34 UTC-4 Richard R wrote:

Yes