Richard Rodney Bennett - Portrait Bust

Portrait Bust

Richard Rodney Bennett sat for sculptor Alan Thornhill for a portrait in clay. The correspondence file relating to the Bennett portrait bust is held as part of the Thornhill Papers (2006:56) in the archive of the Henry Moore Foundation's Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and the terracotta remains in the collection of the artist.

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