Louis Heren, Deputy Editor of The Times, London, 1973       

Bernard died in 1987, Louis in 1995, both in their late seventies. There was a postscript a few years later, when the army portrait was damaged during a house move. The restorer, Henry Gentle, had worked as a barman at the Chelsea Arts Club as an art student. Hailstone, by then in his seventies, still worked away in his studio until nine o'clock each night, then walked down to the Arts Club, where Gentle ensured a pint of Guinness was waiting on the bar at precisely ten past.