AS A child the 1950s I was asked by an artist to sit as a model as she painted me into a picture of a group of children listening to Jesus preaching.

The artist, Elsie Anna Wood, was well-known at the time for her religious paintings, book and Bible illustrations and was then living in The Private Road, near the Bear Inn, Rodborough.

I have often wondered what happened to that painting.

Before she died my mother said she understood it was to be hung in a school in memory of a child who had died but that this school later closed and she had never seen it.

The artist herself seems to have lived in many different regions of England.

Perhaps she used other models in your area?

I recently learned that there is a paintings of Jesus by the same artist in Rodborough Tabernacle and in Brimscombe church where she used local models for the crowd.

My e-mail address is ruth.ratcliffe19@btinternet.com and my telephone number is 01608 730917.

Ruth Ratcliffe

Oxfordshire