This paper focuses on the offer by the art writer Adrian Stokes to commission and pay for a portrait of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein by the artist William Coldstream. It details some of the precursors of this offer in Stokes's preceding involvement first with Klein and then with Coldstream; her response to this offer; and its outcome and aftermath in Stokes's subsequent writing about Klein and Coldstream.
Keywords: Adrian Stokes; Anton Ehrenzweig; Counter-transference; Ernest Jones; Esther Bick; Femininity; Hanna Segal; Imago Group; Joan Riviere; Masculinity; Melanie Klein; Oscar Wilde; Rembrandt; Transference; William Coldstream; William Townsend.
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