Lord Roberts’s figure had been installed soon after his famous march from Kabul to Khandahar in the Afghan War.
CHAPTER XXVIII
My favourite portrait—Lord Tennyson poses unconsciously before my wife—“This beats Tussaud’s”—Sir Richard Burton—His widow clothes the model.
Of all the portraits of my own modelling, I think, if I may be permitted to express an opinion, I like that of Lord Tennyson as well as any. It revives pleasant memories, and I will ask my readers if I may bring my wife into this part of my story. By a coincidence, as I raised my eyes at this moment, my glance fell upon a bust of Tennyson resting on a shelf in my studio.
HEAD OF LORD TENNYSON (POET LAUREATE 1850-1892)
The bust modeled by John T. Tussaud, first exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1892, now in the Tussaud collection.
About the time when I was engaged with the model of the great Victorian poet I had rented a farm cottage near Freshwater, Isle of Wight, and I remember my wife telling me that she frequently saw Tennyson in the neighbourhood.