Ernest Thesiger Gold Silver & Bronze At the end of the

At the end of the war they surfaced in Berlin in the hands of a liberating Russian soldier and were purchased by the film maker Hans Curlis

I’ll miss it if it goes

it is handled with Spurriers usual sensitivity and deft draughtsmanship

a bit of Camden Town

Punch magazine was still a part of life when I was growing up

Ernest Thesiger Gold Silver & Bronze At the end of theThis is something very special, although perhaps more for vintage cinema buffs. The sitter is Ernest Thesiger CBE (1879 1961), not perhaps the most famous actor of his generation but a strong candidate for the most interesting. Im not going to cut and paste Wikipedia here but I urge you to look him up when you have a moment. Suffice to say he led a full and interesting life on the London stage and in 1930s Hollywood, befriended the great and the good