# Timothy Behrens

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'''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](/source/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](/source/PressReader) |date= |accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref> They lived in a Nash terrace overlooking Regent's Park, and in 1949 bought [Culham Court](/source/Culham_Court%2C_Berkshire), a large house in Berkshire on the river Thames.<ref name="pressreader1"/> He was educated at [Eton](/source/Eton_College) and the [Slade School of Fine Art](/source/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](/source/The_Colony_Room)  ([John Deakin's](/source/John_Deakin) 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](/source/Lucian_Freud) and others such as [Francis Bacon](/source/Francis_Bacon_(artist)) 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](/source/Michael_Andrews_(artist)) (permanent collection of the [Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum](/source/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](/source/George_Heywood_Hill) and [Lady Anne Hill](/source/Lady_Anne_Hill), who ran [Heywood Hill](/source/Heywood_Hill), an  avant-garde bookshop in [Curzon Street](/source/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](/source/Diana_Aitchison), niece of the painter [Craigie Aitchison](/source/Craigie_Aitchison_(painter)), who had been a fellow Slade student and close friend.<ref name="alexalienart1"/> They had a son, Harry.<ref name="alexalienart1"/>

== References ==
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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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