Combining those was a series of sketch-portraits of senior British officers, some of which I featured here. One of those portraits was of Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880-1963), an incredibly brave recipient of the Victoria Cross. Wikipedia mentions: "He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, 'Frankly, I had enjoyed the war.'"
I also noted that portrait here.
In September of this year I once again found myself in London's National Portrait Gallery. Instead of using my Nikon Coolpix that nearly always gave me trouble photographing paintings accurately, I now used my iPhone. Three images I took of that 1919 portrait are shown below.
