Samuel Tonkiss (1909-1992), A portrait bust of Laurence Stephen Lowry, signed and numbered 34/36 from a limited edition produced in 1975 bronze, height 29cm (excluding marble base). * Samuel Tonkiss was born in Shropshire and moved to Todmorden in West Yorkshire, where he worked as a journalist. In 1959 he began to sculpt a series of portrait busts, some of which were cast in small editions. An earlier head of Lowry sculpted in 1971 is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.