Reference code
SP/19/20
Title
[copy] Spielmann, to H.M. Hake, Director, National Portrait Gallery
Date
12 Jul 1935
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
He understands why, ordinarily, the Gallery refuses posthumous portraits, but this is a special case.
Toft was a great friend of Gilbert and sees him in his mind's eye. He points out two portraits in the collection that are absurdly unlike, of
Benjamin Robert Haydon.