Virtues - Rest
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
A sign outside a public house. The NG's leaflet confidently says the pub is in Kent. We found a pub of this name in Wheddon Cross, Minehe...
Virtues - Compromise
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
We initially thought this odd scene may refer to one of Loretta Young's films, but no. The image contains a number of puzzling elements ...
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Virtues - Anrep
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Carved at the top of the gravestone is a portrait of Anrep himself. The image below, on the left shows a few mosaic tesserae and the spec...
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3 creators
Virtues - Defiance
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
In front of the white cliffs of Dover Winston Churchill, in his signature siren suit, makes a fist with his right hand and a V-sign with ...
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Virtues - Compassion
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Anna Akhmatova, looking towards Anrep's gravestone (in another panel) and surrounded by the horrors of war, is visited by an angel. To th...
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Virtues - Leisure
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Oddly, in this water-side scene, T. S. Eliot is not sitting in the elaborate classically-styled seat; rather he seems to be crouched behi...
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Virtues - Open Mind
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Earl Jowitt, in his Lord Chancellor robes and wig, raises both hands, palms towards us. Behind him stand two carved figures: that on the ...
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Virtues - Humour
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Lady Diana Cooper as Britannia sits on a lion which clutches a Union Jack shield. She holds the book 'Who's Who' and is awarding a laurel...
2 subjects commemorated
Virtues - Wonder
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Augustus John as Neptune offers Alice in Wonderland gifts from the sea on his trident. To the left is a ship with a mermaid figurehead, h...
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Virtues - Sixth Sense
WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule
Edith Sitwell reads a book while blithely crossing a chasm on a bridge made of a single branch. She is being met by two of the four winds...
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