William Spencer Bagdatopoulos, artist. Born of Greek father and British mother on the Island of Zante. The family spent time in Rotterdam and it has been suggested that William may have had German nationality. He came to England in 1908, living first in Lewisham and, from about 1919, in Hampton Wick, in the south-west corner of Greater London, there becoming part of the Hampton Wick group of artists. His family occupied the house known as 'Gomer', once the home of writer R.D. Blackmore. In 1928, he travelled to the U.S.A. where he became a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, perhaps following the footsteps of Enoch Ward, another Hampton Wick artist, who had worked in Chicago several decades earlier. He suffered problems with the U.S. immigration authorities. He married Alice, a naturalised English woman, born American and nine years his senior. His later career was spent in Santa Barbara in California, and his reputation mostly lies in the U.S.A. Several people have related sitting for their portrait to be painted. Bagdatopoulos exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The Smithsonian Institute has several of his pictures. His style was bold and colourful, indeed, earlier in life he had worked extensively as a commercial artist, particullarly in India. In England he is best remembered for the stained-glass window he made at his home in Hampton Wick. Unfortunately, this window has recently been damaged, in spite of efforts by myself to see it protected. Following the death of his wife, it appears that Bagdatopoulos may have married again. She was named Caralisa, and was four years his Junior. Bagdatopoulos returned to England, with Caralisa, in 1958, possibly to be near his younger sisters, Olga and Phaedra, though his stated destination was Hampton Wick and he acquired an address at Hyde Park Gardens, in London's West End. He is said to have died in Cornwall, but I cannot be certain of that at present. His sisters both died in 1989, aged in their nineties. Bagdatopoulos appears, also, to have had a home at New Court, London W.C.2 for some years in the thirties. My late mother's address book mentions a Bagdatopoulos in Devon, undoubtedly William's mother having moved there with the girls - World War Two being on it's way. It is interesting to note that William Bagdatopoulos did commercial work for Pears Soap - that family living at near-by Isleworth. My late mother remembered him passing the house on his way to the railway station, wearing a broad-brimmed hat. Mrs Bagdatopoulos senior was English, born in 1860 and her name was Amy.