Painter, stage designer, printmaker and draughtsman, born at Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey. He was partly educated by Jesuits at Beaumont College, partly by private tutors abroad. A baronet, Sir Francis studied art for 10 years in Paris from 1926, mainly with Francis Picabia, by which time he had acquired his taste for travel. This was chiefly in Europe, although he also visited North Africa, America and lived for several years in the Far East. By the time that he had his first exhibition, with Salvador Dalí, at the Galerie Marie Cuttoli in Paris in 1930, Rose had already designed scenery and costumes for Diaghilev, and he went on to design for the Lord Berners ballet Cupid and Psyche at Sadler’s Wells in 1939. Rose exhibited extensively internationally and was given a retrospective at England & Co in 1988.