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Charles Marchant STEVENSON: Boca Raton, Egypt, Denmark
Bata Bheag: Portrait of Jean Camille Baube
Bata Bheag (little boat in Gaelic) is a portrait of Charles Marchant Stevenson’s friend Jean Camille Baube, painted during a visit to the Baube home in Boca Grande, Florida. Baube’s granddaughter Gwen Parsons provides information about her grandparents (aka Meme and Pepe): Jean Camille Baube was born in Paris in 1907. As a teen he worked in a Renault car factory. Meme, Lillian Whaley Baube, was born in Scotland in 1911. She moved to London and lived with her sister. During that time she met and married Pepe. My mother (Anne Francois Baube) and uncle (Ian Gaston Baube) were both born in London. The family emigrated to the Washington, DC area in 1939 during World War II. During the war Pepe served with DeGaulle as a journalist. Meme was a home maker and Red Cross volunteer. After the war Pepe was a diplomat with the French Embassy in Washington, DC. Meme and Pepe retired to Boca Grande, FL. Both of them died in 1988 within a few months of one another.
Portrait of Lillian Whaley Baube
Charles Marchant Stevenson’s 1972 multiple portrait of Lillian Whaley Baube, captures several aspects of his wise, delightful friend, at home in Boca Raton.
Two Charles Marchant Stevenson’s watercolor architectural portraits in the Baube Family Collection
Portrait of Bayard Sharp
Charles Marchant Stevenson’s Portrait of Bayard Sharp (1913-2002), shows the private man in a quiet moment with his dog. Former President George Bush said of Sharp (Dupont heir, WWII Navy veteran, horseman, and Republican powerbroker), He was one of the most decent, fine men I have ever known. He was a very close friend that I will always be grateful to for his strong political support. I can’t think of a finer gentleman, and he will be sorely missed, by the entire Bush family. Former Delaware congressman Hal Haskell, a lifelong friend of Sharp, said, If it wasn’t for Bayard and [son-in-law] Will Farish, I doubt seriously if you would have had either Bush as president. – Source: Bayard Sharp, DuPont Heir (obituary).
Mustapha at the Temple of Kom Ombo
Mustapha at the Temple of Kom Ombo (1996), is a portrait of the extraordinary Egyptologist who was Charles Marchant Stevenson’s guide in Egypt, and who became his friend, later coming to visit Stevenson in Mendocino. Here Mustafa explains the history of the double temple of Kom Ombo, built on the Nile by the Ptolemies in the Second Century C.E.
Student Sailors, Royal Danish Navy
LINKS
Charles Marchant Stevenson: Portraits
Charles Marchant Stevenson: Artwork
Stevenson in His Own Words
About Charles Marchant Stevenson
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