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AS AN artist, Margaret Boden lived a double life. While she was a fine painter in her own name, she also made an important contribution to the many distinguished portraits which created the reputation of her husband, Leonard Boden, who died in 1999.
Margaret Boden exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters for about half a century. It was a matter of deep regret to her and Leonard that, while he had been granted such honours as freeman of the City of London and had been elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Margaret had relatively little recognition.
She was born in 1912 in Ecclesmachan, West Lothian, youngest of three children of the Rev A.P.S. Tulloch, a former missionary to India, and his wife, Catherine. Her father's stipend was small, so after boarding- school fees had been found for her two brothers, Margaret had to be educated at home.
Margaret's father was the eighth generation of Church of Scotland ministers. A notable ancestor, of two generations before, was...