This is Francis Rudolph

Francis Rudolph (Latvian: Rūdolfs Peders; 1921−2005) was an English painter of Latvian origin.

Rūdolfs Peders was born in 1921 in Ventspils, Latvia.

In 1944, during the Nazi motion of Latvia, he was expelled from Art School for sympathising with “Communists and Jews” and forcefully conscripted into the German Army. While serving on the Eastern Front he forlorn and made his way back to Latvia where behind the fade away of the suit he was transported to England as a volunteer worker in 1947.

Following his assume to England, Rudolph eventually fixed in Tooting, South London. In 1948 he took up a tilt as porter at Springfield Mental Hospital, Tooting. There he remained for many years even if also broadening his artistic fields.

Whilst having a more profound background the job of porter allowed him to pursue regular art classes to refine his artistic skills; becoming a believer of the Hesketh Hubbard Art Society and exhibiting at venues such as the Chelsea Art Exhibition, Toynbee Art Club and The Mall Galleries. Rudolph was a prolific painter of nude cartoon studies and in addition to produced many scenes of the City of London bearing in mind the “Painting in London” group.

His con is in various collections of note, including the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Aberystwyth University.^{[citation needed]}.

Francis Rudolph died in 2005 while full of life in Herondale Avenue, London, SW18.^{[citation needed]}