We don’t need celebs to understand art | Letters

One of the stars of the National Gallery’s collection, Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs William Hallet (aka The Morning Walk), was hacked by a man with a screwdriver over the weekend (Report, 20 March). The Guardian chooses to report this sorry tale by reminding us that the painting was used as a setting for a covert meeting between Daniel Craig’s James Bond and Ben Whishaw’s Q in the film Skyfall. Pictures of both actors were included, below Gainsborough&r