Nursing & Midwifery
Sue Sonksen, 1980s
Display No. 187
Sue Sonksen was a Nightingale Nurse who cared for artist Feliks Topolski RA (1907-1989) in hospital. To show his thanks, he painted her portrait.
St Thomas’s Hospital, amongst others, display some of the more notable donated art works provided to them by artists who have been patients or who have had their families in care.
Image courtesy of Sue Sonksen
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