{{short description|British painter}} {{about|the painter|the neuroscientist|Timothy Behrens (neuroscientist)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} <!-- Deleted image removed: thumb| Timothy Behrens, by John Vere Brown, 1958 --> <!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|''A Lunch Party'', Timothy Behrens, 1961 --> '''Timothy John Behrens''' (2 June 1937 – 2017) was a British painter who spent most of his professional life as a painter and a writer abroad, in Greece, Italy, and Spain.
==Early life== Timothy John Behrens was born in London on 2 June 1937, the son of Michael Behrens, a financier, and later co-owner of Ionian Bank, and his wife Felicity.<ref name="pressreader1">{{cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-telegraph/20170218/282338269634815 |title=Tim Behrens, Daily Telegraph obituary |via=PressReader |date= |accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref> They lived in a Nash terrace overlooking Regent's Park, and in 1949 bought Culham Court, a large house in Berkshire on the river Thames.<ref name="pressreader1"/> He was educated at Eton and the Slade School of Fine Art.<ref name="pressreader1"/>
==Career== Behrens formed part of the tightly knit group of artists and intellectuals who frequented the Colony Room (John Deakin's famous photograph, ''Lunch at Wheelers'', is of Behrens, Freud, Bacon, Auerbach and Andrews,<ref>[http://drgeoffsnell.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/P1060719.jpg Photograph by John Deakin, Lunch at Wheelers: Timothy Behrens, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews, 1962]</ref> the Soho drinking club where Lucian Freud and others such as Francis Bacon spent much time during the late 1950s and the early 1960s.<ref name="Independent04">Terry Kirby (20 December 2004) [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/celebrities-and-bohemians-come-together-for-lucian-freud-sale-695986.html "Celebrities and bohemians come together for Lucian Freud sale"], ''The Independent''.</ref> Behrens posed in Freud's small Paddington studio for a portrait in 1962 (''Red-Haired Man on a Chair''<ref>[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/lucian-freud/red-haired-man-on-a-chair-1963 ''Red-Haired Man on a Chair'']</ref>) and 1963,<ref name="Independent04" /> and was also the subject of a portrait by Michael Andrews (permanent collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum).<ref>[http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_obra/697 Michael Andrews, Portrait of Timothy Behrens, 1962]</ref> He has exhibited in Spain and Britain.
==Personal life== In 1958, Behrens married Janet Rheinberg (d. 1963), a fellow Slade student, and they had twin daughters, Kate and Sophie (d. 1985).<ref name="alexalienart1">{{cite web|url=http://www.alexalienart.com/alexgallery1a.htm |title=Art Gallery of Alex Alien |publisher=Alexalienart.com |date=2011-02-05 |accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref> In 1963, he married Harriet Hill, the daughter of George Heywood Hill and Lady Anne Hill, who ran Heywood Hill, an avant-garde bookshop in Curzon Street.<ref name="alexalienart1"/> They had two sons, Algy and Charlie, and a daughter, Fanny.<ref name="alexalienart1"/> In 1983, Behrens married for the third time, to the artist Diana Aitchison, niece of the painter Craigie Aitchison, who had been a fellow Slade student and close friend.<ref name="alexalienart1"/> They had a son, Harry.<ref name="alexalienart1"/>
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== External links == * {{Art UK bio}} * A Lunch Party, 1961, Timothy Behrens [http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/loadArtist.do?id=3902] * Christies: Timothy Behrens, Man in bed [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4903267]
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