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Lest they forget

RT bursts from every wall of Will Ramsay’s house. A placid cow that has something of Andy Warhol about it, a contemporary take on an idyllic landscape, even an artistic photo portrait of him as Franz Hals’s The artworks capture every facet of the Affordable Art Fairs he founded and now runs, together with a few other events, through his Ramsay Fairs. However, Capt Ramsay’s most beloved painting is neither contemporary nor laughing (or bovine). It is a poignant portrait, made by Capt Sir Oswald Birley, of his grandfather, Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay. ‘He was the commander of the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, then he planned the North African and Sicilian landings and, later, was brought back to the UK to be the naval commander of the Normandy landings on D-Day,’ explains Capt Ramsay. ‘He’s someone I’ve

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