"Born in Sheffield, Frank was the youngest of three children of the painter and picture conservator George Hamilton Constantine and his wife, Catherine. He was educated at High Storrs school and Sheffield Art College, and his first job was drawing catalogue illustrations for a local furniture manufacturer; as a painter himself, he produced effective landscapes. During the second world war he served in North Africa, Palestine, Syria and Italy, initially with the Royal Engineers and then with the Inter-Services Liaison Department (ISLD), a cover name for MI6. He met his wife, Eileen Dumbreck, in 1945 and they married the following year. On demobilisation, Frank trained as a picture conservator at the Courtauld Institute in London, returning in 1946 to work in Sheffield, where his father was director of the Graves. Frank's career turned increasingly towards the development of Sheffield's art collections, to the making of exhibitions, and above all to ensuring that the city's galleries and the art within them were accessible to everyone." http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/17/frank-constantine
Mr. Constantine certainly immersed himself into life and into its cultural aspects. Another veteran whom one could admire!
