image: Quentin Crisp sitting at a table with his right hand touching his chin.

For those who admired him for his Intellect, Humanity and Courage.
Dedicated to the memory of
Quentin Crisp

"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying,
'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.'
By then, pigs will be your style."

- Quentin Crisp

Quentin at The National Portrait Gallery

In 1985 The National Portrait Gallery purchased the first of what is now a collection of eight portraits of Quentin which it has on display.

Among them are a portraits by Angus McBean from 1941
View Angus McBean's portrait

Marguerite Evans from 1943.
View Marguerite Evans' portrait.

One by Trevor Leighton from 1981.
View Trevor Leighton's portrait.

And one by David Gamble from 1986.
View David Gamble's portrait.

When Quentin first heard in 1985 that the National Portrait Gallery had purchased the portrait by Margeurite Evans he wrote to her saying that the
"news fills me with amusement . . . The whole idea of my becoming a fragment of English history after the way I was treated there is a source of amazement to me, but I cannot say it lessens my hatred for England."