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<strong>Other lives:</strong> Argentinian academic and socialist activist who fled to the UK in the country’s 1973 military coup

Thu 6 May 2021 12.26 EDT Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 14.25 EDT Clutching a quill and pots of ink, Philip Sutton ended his 421-day care home lockdown this week by heading out to do what has been impossible since the Covid pandemic began: observe something new and capture it on paper. The 92-year-old Royal Academician, who built a reputation as one of Britain’s most celebrated colourist painters, has been confined to Harbour House, a Quaker care home in Dorset, since 9 March 2020 under gove...