Fuller account
Sir: Peter Fuller's rather long and probably even paid for 'letter to the editor' (`Britain in the picture', 4 March) complaining about the very intelligent Mr Mount (as he had already done in the Sunday Telegraph where the intelligent Mr Worsthorne has unaccountably received him) is yet another example of his obsessive and rather repul- sive platform-hogging and -hopping, along with the inevitable plug for what many think the only platform he should be allowed — being so very easy not to buy.
How terrible if Turner were to have been reproached by a 19th-century Fuller about his passionate rivalry with Euro- peans such as Claude and even his inevit- ably corrupting travels on the Continent. I find, as many others do, that Fuller's positions concerning morality, religion and nationality in art are simply fatuous and hardly sane (any day now he may pro- nounce Michael Ayrton a better painter than Matthew Smith!).
'What's the use of telling his dinner?'
If you deliberately gave him enough space to hang himself I think you were mistaken, as every single platform he mounts becomes in effect his scaffold. It is not a pretty sight and surely no deterrent is necessary.
Bruce Bernard
44 Frederick Street, London WC1
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