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Robert Lenkiewicz

On and off, for nearly 30 years, he worked on his great masterpiece, the Riddle Mural in the Round Room at Port Eliot house, home of the Earl of St. Germans, but died before its completion.

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Inspired by the example of Albert Schweitzer, Lenkiewicz threw open the doors of his studios to anyone in need of a roof – down and outs, addicts, criminals and the mentally ill congregated there.

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The Paul Downes song "Robert and the Cowboys" was inspired by the project and describes a number of the vagrants.

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz was born in Dartmoor, England, in 1966 to Celia Norman and the British painter Robert Lenkiewicz.

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