British printers like Medeci, Solomon and Whitehead and Royles brought art to the people.  School corridors were furnished with prints of Cezannes,  Picassos or John Nash, while lower and middle class homes were hung with ready-framed prints catering to a range of more figurative tastes from Vernon Ward’s ducks on the wall (glowingly praised by TV comedians  Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in a sketch ‘I don’t know about art but I know what I like’),  David Shepherd’s Elephants, Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl to John Strevens costume and Spanish dancer scenes.  Such prints were ignored or at best, ridiculed by the artistic establishment, but remain a record of popular taste of the time.

Prints of his earlier paintings some of which had been exhibited at the Royal Academy such as The Three Princesses, of his three oldest daughters dressing up, and Spanish and Parisian scenes brought in much needed fees, and later a sprinkling of royalties. A few of these vintage prints are available, email info@johnstrevens.com