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Category Archives: art
Sanguimario – here boy!
Tomorrow I head back to the house for the first time in a month. The decorating gods must have known this as yesterday they provided a little companion-animal for the trip in the form of this little oil painting. Until … Continue reading
According to Plan
The hang of the completed hallway was scheduled for Queen’s birthday weekend (first weekend in June). We’ve have lived for a while with the hallway looking spare and now time had come to get our heads around the complexities of hanging … Continue reading
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Journey to a Hanging [My Version]
1. I have pressed a friend who hangs artworks for a living to assist me in hanging the pictures in the newly painted hall. The date arranged is a month away – the long Queen’s Birthday weekend. The day … Continue reading
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The small travels of Reverend William Gilpin
I recently acquired a little picture frame from the usual weekly source. It is very nice example, a mottled wooden frame of good proportion. Even better it was in excellent condition without bumps, knocks, scratches or peeling veneer. It has … Continue reading
William IV – the overlooked.
Despite this blog’s subtitle, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Peter Wells decorate an Edwardian house, there doesn’t seem to be too much going on around here that’s Edwardian – well not recently. Things seem to have settled into a period around 70 years … Continue reading
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A night in the Garden room
This is a small space created from what was once the washhouse. In the tradition of that room it is not connected to the main house except by the back verandah. The old concrete-floored washhouse was built on the ground … Continue reading
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Two new Victorians with no place to go
I aquired this painting some time back, unframed, glued to a backing board and in a not entirely happy state. It is by Frank Holl, one of those romantic English painters who died early and is not well remembered – … Continue reading
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Havelock – Hero of Cawnpore and Parian
A wet Saturday morning and I have an injured Achilles’ tendon. I was pretty determined not to go anywhere much at all but to stay inside. How then did I end up in Hastings – clutching a Parianware bust in … Continue reading
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Avoiding Violet
In order to obey the household rule regarding the purchase of small paintings (no more it is decreed), I’ve been on the look out for larger Victorian paintings. These are few and far between. What’s more I’ve discovered that we … Continue reading
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