of the South East Asia Command during the Burma Campaign. The paintings he produced of Lord Louis Mountbatten and key members of his staff are now in the Imperial War Museum, London. Later life After the war Hailstone had a very successful career as a portrait painter. A gregarious, outgoing man, Hailstone went on to paint the last officially commissioned portrait of Sir Winston Churchill in 1955 and members of the Royal family, including the 1968 portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II as Colonel-in-Chief of the 16th/5th Queens’s Royal Lancers, but he as happily painted ordinary members of the public. His work included portraits of Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, Sir John Barbirolli and Paul Mellon. The Mellon portrait led to several commissions in America which provided the funds to save the tower and some ancillary buildings of Hadlow Castle, where Hailstone had lived from 1951, from demolition. A portrait of South African industrialist Harry Oppenheimer by Hailstone was burned by demonstrators during the Rhodes Must Fall upheaval at the University of Cape Town in February 2016. References External links 1910 births 1987 deaths 20th-century English male artists 20th-century English painters Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools British firefighters British war artists English male painters English landscape artists People educated at The Judd School People from Hadlow Sibling artists World War II artists