Notes by the Secretary [Sir Walter Lamb] on the portrait of King George V by Charles Sims, RA

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RAA/SEC/10/79/2

Title

Notes by the Secretary [Sir Walter Lamb] on the portrait of King George V by Charles Sims, RA

Date

1951

Level

Item

Extent & medium

2 pieces

Content Description

The notes, which appear to have been prepared by Lamb for his successor as Secretary, Humphrey Brooke, record the destruction of the portrait by Sir Frank Dicksee and Sir Frank Short in 1927. Lamb states that it is most undesirable that any further allusion to the work should appear in the press, especially as there was a great danger that Mr Sickert might make a stir about the fate of the picture.