Hollington, Nina, photographer

The portrait of JEK Studd was painted by Miss Alice M. Burton. She was a full-time student in the Polytechnic School of Art in the early 1920s, continuing as an evening student in 1929. Alice received a silver medal for life drawing and painting in August 1923. In July 1929 she was awarded the Robert Mitchell medal for her portrait of Studd. She also painted two of the panels in the Fyvie Hall, in 309 Regent Street, and exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. She was a member of the Society of Graphic Art.

The portrait itself was painted to celebrate Studd becoming Lord Mayor and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1929. It was hung, alongside the accompanying portrait of Lord Hailsham, in the new library - now the Boardroom - of 309 Regent Street until the 1980s.