‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

George Sassoon in his pram outside Heytesbury House

Pencil and watercolour

17.6 x 22.6cm

Unframed

Provenance:

Siegfried Sassoon;

And by family descent

George Sassoon was Siegfried and Hester's only child. Siegfried wrote to Max Beerbohm in 1936, asking 'Will he, I wonder, become Prime Minister, Poet Laureate, Archbishop of Canterbury, or merely Editor of The Times Literary Supplement? Or Master of The Quorn? Or merely Squire of Heytesbury?'