Ernest Thesiger sold it is a wonderful painting

it is a wonderful painting

It is an endless mystery to me that paintings of this quality and decorative potential

ending up as the Keep of Tigers at London Zoo

In the commissioned group Thesiger appears to be wearing the same Zipper top as in our portrait

From the shop signs emerged the paintings

Ernest Thesiger sold it is a wonderful paintingThis 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