From Brian Sewell, with love: tender gallery gift shows critic's softer side

Cutting columnist leaves Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée’s Maternal Affection to his beloved National Gallery The late Brian Sewell, renowned as an acid-penned art critic, has left a tender painting to the National Gallery in London, a place he loved so much he once said he wanted to have his ashes mixed with bird food and scattered on its front steps.Maternal Affection, a glowing painting on copper by the French artist Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, has been hung b