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Her style became softer and more impressionistic than her work during and before the war, but it was only occasionally purely abstract. Her favoured medium was always oil on canvas, but she also painted on board or wood (mainly flowers), and (especially in the later 1970s and 1980s) in watercolour.
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She was born on 29 November 1907, and died in London at the age of 97 on 26 April 2005. She was the youngest child of a barrister called Walter Capron who was himself the youngest son of a
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on 24 June 1925 (p 8 column F) singled out the work of Brenda Capron for "particular mention". At
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