Miguel 'O Estragador' ('The Destroyer'), by Patrick Swift, oil on board, c.1963
(poor quality reproduction)


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One of the fishermen was a character known as the 'Destroyer'- he had damaged himself in some way by getting the bends when dynamiting and diving for fish... My father painted a series of portraits of him. He was paid to sit, and remained motionless for hours. - Katherine Swift (Gandon Editions, 1993)

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