A request to borrow a work by Maurice de Sausmarez made me realise that my namesake – but not a blood relation – had been an ARA.   I’ve always thought of him primarily as the author of Basic Design: the Dynamics of Visual Form, a key work in bringing the ideas of the Bauhaus to England, and, also, as the person who established the teaching of art in Leeds University before Quentin Bell.   But I hadn’t realised that he had an affair with Bridget Riley in the 1950s, was a very capable portrait painter (see his painting of Bonamy Dobrée), and became an ARA in April 1964.