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"This is 1978, and what's a little blood between friends..."

Jeremy Brett (1933-1995) was a marvellous and versatile actor with a distinguished forty-year career in film, television, radio, and stage. He is most internationally famed for his masterful and enriching portraiture of the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. He has touched the hearts of millions, including my own. Mr. Brett is the "quintessential" Holmes! He is, and shall be, always dearly missed.

This is portrait is from my "Professionally Jeremy" Series, in which I compose an artwork of Mr. Brett about every year in dedication to him. Here, between 1978 and 1979, Mr. Brett toured the United States in the title role of the Tony award-winning stage production of Dracula — and a supremely handsome vampyre to boot! He luxuriates in every layer — crepe blouse with "bat-wing" collar, black velvet waistcoat, with watch-chain of teeth, black velvet trousers with patch covering hole incurred during a split second, onstage vanishing act, voluminous cape with ingenious collar. He "roared" on stage and, unfortunately, developed "Dracula elbow" in his left arm from flinging the 30-pound cape around.

I would have loved to see Jeremy Brett in this role, but alas, I was not even born yet... Therefore, I dedicate this picture to Jeremy and the role-I-never-saw — with some hundreds of bats! If you look carefully, each bat is drawn in. Pity scanners cannot show the texture of the work with any sort of justice.

(For more "Brettish" information, please visit my tribute websites: DeviantArt Jeremy Brett Club .)

Medium - 2H mechanical pencil, 2B mechanical pencil.

Dracula (theatrical play) © Bram Stoker/Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston.

Description
"This is 1978, and what's a little blood between friends..."

Jeremy Brett (1933-1995) was a marvellous and versatile actor with a distinguished forty-year career in film, television, radio, and stage. He is most internationally famed for his masterful and enriching portraiture of the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. He has touched the hearts of millions, including my own. Mr. Brett is the "quintessential" Holmes! He is, and shall be, always dearly missed.

This is portrait is from my "Professionally Jeremy" Series, in which I compose an artwork of Mr. Brett about every year in dedication to him. Here, between 1978 and 1979, Mr. Brett toured the United States in the title role of the Tony award-winning stage production of Dracula — and a supremely handsome vampyre to boot! He luxuriates in every layer — crepe blouse with "bat-wing" collar, black velvet waistcoat, with watch-chain of teeth, black velvet trousers with patch covering hole incurred during a split second, onstage vanishing act, voluminous cape with ingenious collar. He "roared" on stage and, unfortunately, developed "Dracula elbow" in his left arm from flinging the 30-pound cape around.

I would have loved to see Jeremy Brett in this role, but alas, I was not even born yet... Therefore, I dedicate this picture to Jeremy and the role-I-never-saw — with some hundreds of bats! If you look carefully, each bat is drawn in. Pity scanners cannot show the texture of the work with any sort of justice.

(For more "Brettish" information, please visit my tribute websites: DeviantArt Jeremy Brett Club .)

Medium - 2H mechanical pencil, 2B mechanical pencil.

Dracula (theatrical play) © Bram Stoker/Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston.