…when I thought I’d glimpsed an original oil painting by Doris Zinkeisen at Fleetville Vintage Emporium in St Albans.

Framed print of ‘Country Drive’ by Doris Zinkeisen, published by Pallas in 1925

But it was only a print, in rather a nasty frame. I decided to let someone else find it. Although I’m really drawn to it, looking at the photo. I discovered Doris Zinkheisen from The High Toby, a Puffin toy theatre book from 1948 for which she did the lovely illustrations:

Page of ladies and scoundrels from The High Toby

She also did this terrific railway poster.

Railway poster for York by Doris Zinkeisen

She was a gorgeous, society beauty but also a marvellous artist-illustrator, if a tiny bit twee. She’s my guilty pleasure.