‘The artist’s cause at heart’: M.H. Spielmann, Collector and Donor
Small exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery of works from the collection of M.H.Spielmann, an art journalist from the end of the 19th century. This was a slightly mixed collection but the highlight was a series of self-portraits of Punch cartoonists which he had commissioned and collected when writing a phistory of the magazine in 1895. A section on British sculptors of the early 20th century, again collected for a book, was enhanced by notes to tell you where you could find works by the artists in the gallery.