The historian MOK O’Keeffe chooses a portrait which hangs in one of London’s great houses.
MOK O’Keeffe on ‘Portrait of Lord Thomas Howard de Walden, Later 1st Earl of Suffolk’ by the British School
‘I grew up near Kenwood House in London and, most Sundays, my family would visit, to see the art and walk in the parkland. I remember my mother pausing at this painting and telling my brother and I that this flamboyant man was no longer alive, and that it was…