now hanging in the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. World War II and later life During World War Two, Frampton received two commissions from the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC. One was intended for the Admiralty, but a suitable subject was not found and the painting was never made. Frampton's other WAAC commission was for a portrait of Sir Ernest Gowers, which became a triple portrait of Gowers and his colleagues in their underground control room in Kensington. In 1953 Frampton requested that the Royal Academy place him on its list of retired members. His eyesight had begun to worsen, convincing him that he could no longer paint to his previous high standard and with such meticulous detail. With his wife he moved to a hilltop house overlooking Monkton Deverill in Wiltshire. Frampton had designed the property in the 1930s and for the rest of his life he worked on improving and maintaining this house, which included his own furniture and clock designs. For many years Frampton's art was rarely shown in public and he was largely forgotten. However, he lived to see his retrospective at the Tate in 1982. It was his first one-man show and greatly restored his standing. Posthumous usage In 2016 Penguin Classics began employing a series of Frampton's paintings for new editions of the complete works of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. References Further reading Richard Morphet, Meredith Frampton, [exhibition catalogue] The Tate Gallery, London, 1982. . External links May 2011 Entry on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Blogspot Page National Portrait Gallery Collection 1894 births 1984 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English male artists Alumni of St John's Wood Art School Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools British Army personnel of World War I British war artists English male painters English portrait painters Painters from London People educated at Westminster School, London Royal Academicians World War II artists