138:. As a student, Frankfurther had spent some summers in America. After graduating in 1951, she visited Italy, where she painted numerous portraits of street beggars and pilgrims, and then, briefly, Paris. Returning to England, Frankfurther took herself away from the central London art scene, and her family home, and moved to the East End of the city. She lived in a basement flat in
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