Looking for a Way Up
Rosemary Hill: Roy Strong’s Vanities, 25 April 2013
Self-Portrait as a Young Man
by Roy Strong.
Bodleian, 286 pp., £25, March 2013,978 1 85124 282 5 Show More
by Roy Strong.
Bodleian, 286 pp., £25, March 2013,
“... It is difficult not to admire Roy Strong, though there are moments in this account of his first 32 years where he seems to be doing all he can to make it easier. Born in 1935, he became in 1967 the youngest ever director of the National Portrait Gallery. It was a remarkable achievement, but by mentioning it three times in the first seven pages Strong begins at an early stage to try the reader’s patience ... ”