I spent the day on a tour of Wren’s Greenwich, organised by the Society of Architectural Historians. We started at tye Queen’s House, whose history is itself pretty complicated, looking so coherent, but actually with an immensely complicated building history which Gordon Higgott expertly unravelled. Originally commissioned by Anne of Denmark, as I understand it, as a hunting lodge, facing south on to the deer park with private apartments to the north and a large room between the two halves, straddling the main road.

I was most interested by the painted decoration in the Queen’s Bed Chamber, not least because the ceiling painting is apparently unattributed, which seems surprising given its sophistication and the house is so well documented (doesn’t look like Thornhill to me):-

Here is Inigo Jones by William Dobson (c.1642):-

A view of the Queen’s House:-

And the impressive painted decoration in the curved part of the ceiling of the Queen’s Bed Chamber by Edward Pearce Sr.:-