I have in the past done a post on Roy Strong’s birthday and am doing so again this year. He recently published a book on Stuart Portraiture and I hope there might be further volumes of his diaries to come. Next year he will be 90.

I admire the way he has kept on writing into his late eighties.

Here he is as he was when I first knew him as Director of the V&A, full of reforming zeal (photo by Jill Kennington):-