Eric Hebborn won the Royal Academy Silver Medal and was singled out by Augustus John for the Hacker Portrait Prize. He won Rome Prize and spent two years in Italy, then returned to London to teach before moving to Rome permanently in 1965. In Italy, he embarked on a career of making and selling old-master drawings. Over the last thirty years he has produced hundreds of drawings in the style of all the European schools, from the fourteenth century up to the present. [from Drawn to Trouble (1991)]
On January 8, 1996. . . Eric Hebborn was found lying in a street in Rome, his skull crushed with a blunt instrument. He died in hospital on January 11, 1996 [Wikipedia]
