"The Queen's Memorial" — Thomas Brock, R.A.

Leslie Ward ('Spy') portrays the sculptor Thomas Brock in his studio smock, holding a modelling tool and resting one hand on a turntable that supports a maquette of what would become the Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace, unveiled 1911. The caption reads "The Queen's Memorial" with the parenthetical identification (Thomas Brock R.A.). Ward's caricature is genial rather than cutting: Brock's barrel chest, white walrus moustache, and round spectacles are affectionately inflated, the smock billowing like a sail. The plate belongs to the magazine's respectful 'establishment artist' mode, celebrating an academician at the summit of official patronage rather than puncturing him.