SARGENT AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to your interesting note on the death of Mr. Sargent in the Spectator of April 18th- you refer to the Wertheimer Portraits as the only work by a living artist ever hung in the National Gallery. If my 'memory serves the portrait of Alfred Gurney, by the late F. G. Watts, No. 1671, was hung at Trafalgar Square long before the death of the artist. It was certainly accepted by the Gallery in 1897, and Mr. Watts lived until the summer of 1904.—I am, Sir, &c., 7 Kidbrook Gardens, Blackheath, S.E. 3. A. E. LIDGETT.
[We discovered after we had written the note that works of living painters have several times been hung in the National Gallery, but not, we believe, within very recent years.— En. Spectator.]
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