TRAFALGAR SQUARE PORTRAITS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 February 1935, Page 9

TRAFALGAR SQUARE PORTRAITS

INTERESTING NEW PORTRAITS

(From Our Own Correspondent)

LONDON 3rd January

The public can now view, at the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square, all the new works acquired by the alert Trustees during the past year. Examples range from the 17th century to the ultra-modern school of portraiture, and besides oil paintings there are watercolour sketches, black-and-white drawings, and medallions in wax. Irrespective of their artistic merits or demerits, most of the new portraits are interesting in themselves, including as they do such personalities as Wordsworth, Southey, Shelly, Hazlitt, John Stuart Blackie', Field Marshal the Earl of Wipers, Lord Kitchener, and Sir Edward Elgar. But perhaps the general public may be even more fascinated by a pen drawing of himself, executed with rare vivacity and humour, by the immortal but tragic Drury Lane comedian, Dan Leno.