Painter and draughtswoman Zsuzsi Roboz was particularly admired for her 'perceptive portraits of artists, dancers, writers and musicians' (The Times, 12 July 2012). The critic Edward Lucie-Smith commented that 'She always tried to give these likenesses something that went further than simple realism. Essentially she was a symbolist artist – she wanted to catch the creative aura of those she portrayed' (Zsuzsi Roboz obituary, The Guardian, 19 July 2012). Her portrait of Royal Academician Mick Rooney (b. 1944) is part of a larger series of British artists completed between 1990 and 1993 and captures the sitter in a relaxed pose.