The short life and many loves of Stephen Tomlin Financial Times | By Louis Wise
June 6, 2023
This month, an exhibition at Philip Mould & Co shines a rare light on Tomlin’s talents. Centred around Mould’s acquisitions from Tomlin’s descendants, it privileges the busts that argue his place as an intriguing footnote of British art history, despite his death in 1937 aged only 35 (he also later worked in ceramics): his portraits of Strachey, Grant or indeed Woolf, whose looming likeness – the only statue made of Woolf from life – now sits in Tavistock Square, opposite the site where she once lived.
