Sigismund Goetze

Between 1912 and 1921, Goetze painted a mural scheme for the Foreign Office depicting the Origin, education, development, expansion and triumph of the British Empire.

[9] The canvases were installed against the wishes of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, who objected to them, supposedly because of their display of naked flesh.

[9] The antisemitic writer Harold Sherwood Spencer became obsessed with the idea that Goetze's paintings were part of a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the British Empire.

In 1922 Spencer attacked Goetze in the journal Plain English, calling him "a foreign Jew" who was "an alien in Common Law and a perpetual enemy of this Christian empire".

[1] Goetze and Constance also donated two bronze sculptures by Albert Hodge, The Lost Bow (1910)[12] and A Mighty Hunter (1913),[13] which were probably commissioned for Grove House.

[15] In 1950 the Triton and Dryads fountain, designed by William McMillan in 1936, was at last installed in Queen Mary's Gardens with an inscription commemorating Goetze as a "Painter[,] Lover of the Arts and Benefactor of this Park".

Britannia pacificatrix , one of a series of murals that hang on the first floor at the top the grand staircase in the Foreign Office. The series of murals depict the "origin, education, development, expansion and triumph of the British Empire, leading up to the Covenant of the League of Nations". It took Goetze seven years to complete the murals and he painted them at his own expense throughout the First World War. They were presented to the Foreign Office in 1921.
Triton and Dryads , a fountain in Regent's Park commissioned by Goetze and eventually dedicated as a memorial to him