We went to see the murals by Rex Whistler at Plas Newydd.
He was commissioned in 1936 to paint the walls of the new dining room, created by knocking together three smaller rooms in the east wing. It is a work of remarkable scale and ambition, its Mediterranean subject matter apparently suggested by the Marchioness (he was in love with her daughter, Lady Caroline).
He depicted himself:-
It’s full of rich architectural detail, demonstrating his generation’s interest in the Italian baroque (and his younger brother’s interest in Vanbrugh):-
I missed the exhibition of his work in Salisbury last autumn and now wish I’d seen it.
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Hi Charles! I went to the Genesis Cinema Saturday and they told me that the rumours of their closing was fabricated by local residents who wanted to sabotage their planning application to develop the cinema! Whodunnit?? I was elected an RA recently. So pleased. All the bestLiane
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Congratulations on your election as an RA ! I hadn’t spotted it. Great news. Charles
Thank you Charles. And the dining room at the Tate should be on the Rex Whistler Tour.
Yes indeed. Charles
we have a framed print of the mural hanging near our front door, bought at Plas Newydd several years ago and I look at with pleasure it almost every day.