Virtues - Defiance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Virtues - Folly

Virtues - Folly

WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule

Wrapped in floating fabric the beautiful Maud Russell looks at us, unaware that over her shoulder the eyes of the jester jingle stick are...

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Virtues - Curiosity

Virtues - Curiosity

WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule

Lord Rutherford wears a coronet - he had been raised to the peerage in 1931. Around the bust are symbols of his laboratory work in atomic...

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Virtues - Delectation

Virtues - Delectation

WC2, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery - Staircase Hall - North Vestibule

In a formal garden Margot Fonteyn sits demurely listening to Edward Sackville-West playing a harpsichord. A female statue behind holds a ...

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