Only Connect - Ludwig van Beethoven <> Thomas Eliot

How are these sitters connected?

 Ludwig van Beethoven by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1823) NPG D13759

T.S. Eliot by Patrick Heron 1949 NPG 4467

The connection
T. S. Eliot based his most musical of poems, the ‘Four Quartets’, on Beethoven’s ground-breaking late quartets.

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