Ron and Ray Pett, Butchers

© the artist. Image credit: Girton College, University of Cambridge

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Ron Pett and his wife, Jessie, share the same bedroom in which he was born in 1935, in the 17th-century living accommodation belonging to the butcher’s shop in Rotherfield, East Sussex, which was started by his grandfather in 1928. With the help of his cousin Ray, Ron has been running the family business since he took over the financial reins a quarter of a century ago. The business today is certainly nothing like it was in grandfather Pett’s time, when a travelling slaughterman called Sixy Minns served local farms and chicken were killed in the back room. The third generation of Pett butchers have seen considerable change too. They enjoyed long periods of rising prosperity as the village grew from 2,500 to 3,500, and the car brought in trade from the surrounding countryside.

Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Ron and Ray Pett, Butchers

Date

2000

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 126 x W 100 cm

Accession number

487

Acquisition method

on loan from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Work type

Painting

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