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Head and shoulders three quarter turned portrait of Woodcock wearing open neck white shirt under a V-neck wool jumper.

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Portrait of John Woodcock (1926), 2006 Rupert Alexander Charcoal on paper John Woodcock was cricket correspondent of The Times (1954 – 1988), editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1981 – 1986) and President of the Cricket Writers' Club (1986 – 2004), having been chairman in 1966. The sitting for this portrait took place in Rupert Alexander’s Balham studio in South West London under a skylight. Natural light is key to Alexander’s work which is heavily influenced by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, who is famous for using light and dark to create forms, a method known as chiaroscuro. MCC Collections: Commission M.2006.115