Ernest Thesiger sold I really ought to be

I really ought to be offering a best caption prize for this one

it is a wonderful painting

From the shop signs emerged the paintings

Paisley Museum holds a fine example of the same beach viewed from the water

ending up as the Keep of Tigers at London Zoo

Ernest Thesiger sold I really ought to beThis is something very special, although perhaps more for vintage cinema buffs. The sitter is Ernest Thesiger CBE (1879 1961), not perhaps the most famous actor of his generation but a strong candidate for the most interesting. Im not going to cut and paste Wikipedia here but I urge you to look him up when you have a moment. Suffice to say he led a full and interesting life on the London stage and in 1930s Hollywood, befriended the great and the good