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I was so excited recently to visit the exhibition from the National Portrait gallery on display at Montecute House in Somerset. A favourite poet of mine, Sir Thomas Wyatt was an Tudor adventurer, soldier and maybe spy, was on display – not the man himself, obviously but two portraits which I had only ever seen in books or […]
MoreThis rather fuzzy photo doesn’t do this painting justice… You can find a perfect representation of it if you look; I believe it might be by Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted in about 1755, but she is ‘an unknown young woman’. The painting is quite dull in colour, it looks faded, but maybe that was the angle […]
MoreLichen lion Lichen another lion… How much does lichen urn? All white now? A pillar of lichen There are some creatures here Lichen at Bowood House in Wiltshire, and Montecute House in Somerset
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Lois Elsden 