Europe trip 2011 underway

My partner Paulette and I are off again on a holiday to Europe. We just flew into London, Heathrow , this morning. The trip went pretty well, but was the usual tedious, uncomfortable long haul, with 10th hours to Singapore followed by 5 hours in the airport before a 13 hour slot to London. As usual this had us arriving at our hotel by about 8am, exhausted but unable to check in and reluctant to waste a good day of our holiday.
So in the interest of artistic research we headed for the Courtauld Gallery at Somerset house (