'Poster boy' for the neo-Classical movement who disappeared under the radar eschewed fame for a place in the sun

Australian comedian and actor was a passionate champion of museums, libraries and the visual arts, and a collector of late 19th-century artists and authors

Christie's will offer Scillionian Beachscape alongside a late garden scene by Freud, both of which were once in the collection of renowned patron Simon Sainsbury

The writer Ian Collins says that after his chance meeting with the British artist his “life changed forever”