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In a remarkably varied career spanning over six decades, Raphael Maklouf has been both artist and businessman, sculptor and minter. His many portrait busts include that of Queen Elizabeth II, whose effigy he designed for the British coinage. His numerous commissions for commemorative medallions led to the founding of his private mint. Tower Mint, established forty years ago, is expanding and thriving. This copiously illustrated biography traces Raphael Maklouf's ancestry and early years in Palestine, the development of his artistic career at Camberwell College of Art under the tutelage of the eminent Czech sculptor Dr Karel Vogel, and the extraordinary chain of coincidences that led to the founding of Tower Mint. This engaging account by Jenny Pery gives a vivid insight into Raphael Maklouf 's unusual family background and the influences that have formed his beliefs and his artistic and business practices.

Head of Painting at Falmouth School of Art from 1960 to 1981, Francis Hewlett (1930–2012) remained a figurative artist, exploring what he called the ‘essential geometry†of observed objects, despite the prevailing fashions of the period. Including over 200 paintings and drawings, this biography charts his lifelong dedication to art, from his early studies in Bristol, London and Paris to his completion of a major series of paintings in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.