The Howard Coster photographs of Alfred Douglas
At the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Speaking of Alfred Douglas, as we were in the latest article about Three Times Tried, he came onto my radar recently during the festive period.
You may recall a minor kerfuffle last year about various errors in a label to an Oscar Wilde photograph at the National Portrait Gallery in London, that I highlighted and which were subsequently corrected. So perhaps to atone for that censure, I decided to visit the gallery’s online shop for gift-giving ideas.
I alighted upon four interesting and lesser-known images of the noble Lord—part of a collection of photographs taken in the 1940s by the renowned celebrity photographer Howard Coster.1
There was a problem, however.
It’s pedantic, I know, but didn’t somebody once say: we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously.
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