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Possibly a man called Terry Goldstone... who was a tramp who sat for Robert in the 1970's as part of the artist's vagrancy studies al(though some have suggested it to be a Barbican fisherman!).
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If this is Terry Goldstone (and it does look like him without the beard) he was not a tramp. Terry lived next door to me in Clifton Street (I was in No 21), just up the road from Rob's gallery. Terry had a wife and young family when I was there from 1974 until 1976. He was a close friend of Rob's.
Maggie
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Agree with you totally Maggi about Terry not being a tramp he was and maybe is a dedicated socialist who sold the Morning Star and Socialist Worker outside Plymouth Museum for many years. This is not a painting of Terry. Regards Mick...
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I don't think this is Terry although I agree that it bears a FAINT resemblance to how he might have looked in his younger days without a beard. I knew him from 1973 until he left Plymouth [possibly about 10 years later] to live in Germany. He may have had a young family before that time but he always lived alone in his house in Clifton St. when I knew him. He was hospitable and would accommodate people if they were in need ... for example Robert stayed there for a time in the late '60's [?]. Terry, sadly, so I am told, died a year or so back in Germany. He leaves a son, who I believe is still Plymouth based.
Terry was very helpful, always willing to to give people a hand if they needed and, as you say, he sold the Morning Star outside the Museum every week. He sat for Robert quite a few times especially during the Vagrancy period and some remarkable paintings resulted. He was NOT a vagrant, as has been said above. Not everyone who sat at that time & was included in the exhibition was vagrant. I don't want to romantisize the lives of the people who were living rough ... not at all ... but Robert was exploring other issues through the medium of this theme AS WELL AS drawing attention to the poor deal that these 'outsiders' had in the Plymouth of those days . I think that Terry had other qualities that Robert felt resonated with the theme.
Anyway ... this charming w/c is not Terry in my opinion! I don't know who it is...
My grandmars brother Terry Goldstone.
I'm not sure if this is Terry or not as was only born in 1987 so only new Terry as an older man. It has a nose that is very like my grate unkles Terry. Terry is in lots of paintings of Roberts and other members of my family. Including the big mural down by the dock near the gin museum. My unkle Terry was also a sussesful artis in his own right. I only wish I achive as much as he did. A very intresting man and very sweat in his later years. An amazin mind!