When I saw David Remfry’s work in this year’s summer exhibition, I asked him if he ever undertakes commissions. He said ‘not if possible’. So I was slightly surprised to be invited not long afterwards to a thé dansant at Fortnum and Mason to celebrate the completion of watercolour sketches by him for its fourth floor restaurant. There was not much dansant. But the sketches are beautifully observed and gently humorous scenes from the life of the shop:
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Ah, an English springer spaniel at work again – all energy and independence of mind. The most wonderful dogs in the world!
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