The late great Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia admired the arts. He also had a hankering to see himself as others saw him. On both counts he liked to have his picture drawn. Most tireless limner of Lawrence was stocky, dark-mustached Eric Kennington, who did the firm-jawed bust Lawrence used as frontispiece for his Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and endless drawings of him and his Arab friends.
After Lawrence died in 1935, catapulted over his motorcycle's handlebars at high speed, persistent Sculptor Kennington began carving him a monument. For four years he chipped away at a two-ton block of Portland stone....
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