In A Collection of Real Character in today’s Financial Times, Robin Blake reports on some of the more interesting exhibits in London’s National Portrait Gallery.
A more recent rogue is Leon Engers Kennedy’s cultic portrait of the red-robed satanist Aleister Crowley, painted during the first world war looking every inch the evil genius…
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