29 OCTOBER 1965, Page 6

Robert Bevan One hundred years ago this year Robert Bevan

was born. He was a founder member of the Camden Town Group and later of the London Group. I have seen only a very few of his paintings, mostly in private houses, although he is well represented in the Tate and the Ashmolean. I remember particularly a vivid still life, The Green Ginger Jar, which hangs in the library of Randolph Churchill's home at East Bergholt. Now Bevan's son, R. A. Bevan (him- self a neighbour of Randolph's in the lovely Constable country), has produced an excellent memoir of his father (Robert Bevan; Studio Vista, 635.) with ninety colour and monochrome plates. It is a fine tribute to a painter who is

perhaps only now,. forty years after his de beginning to be fully appreciated. ath,