Peter Jones @PeterJones40

Retired Harpsichord Polisher. Joined July 2011

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

18 hours ago

...background and incidental detail might have been delegated to his many assistants. Many portrait painters of the time and later used the same system. His studio was extremely prolific and how much of a given portrait was actually painted by Lely remains a hot topic.

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

18 hours ago

Painting at Bedtime. Portrait of a Lady in Blue holding a Flower. Sir Peter Lely. Lely was a painter of Dutch origin who became the dominant portrait painter of 17th century England. How much of your portrait he himself would paint would depend on his tariff, drapery....

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

19 hours ago

@suzianna63 @DebsGreenJones2 Thanks, I thought I knew a lot about her, but I didn't know that.

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

2 days ago

Painting at Bedtime. In a Glasgow Cotton Spinning Mill: Changing the Bobbin. Sylvia Pankhurst. Best known as a feminist and suffragette, but she also trained as an artist at the Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Her paintings are displayed in many galleries.

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

2 days ago

@parker__farquer ...a two week honeymoon. We have all been teasing Nanny H about Hackenbacker but she just turns a very strange colour I associate with home made strawberry jam. Do you think they could be affianced? I hope not as then he and his madrigals might come here. Good Grief. Lord Eliot

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

2 days ago

@parker__farquer ...that Leanie has been moved to another prison which he won't be naming. One unfortunate result of the party is that MM has started singing songs she heard Clarisse and Bill the Party Pauper singing. I will have to distract her. Trevelyan and Lady Trevelyan will be having...

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

3 days ago

...instead he chose amiable dimwit Paris to choose. He chose Aphrodite who rewarded him with Helen (later of Troy), a sequence of events leading directly to the Trojan War. The rejected goddesses made Paris pay during that extended conflict.

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

3 days ago

Painting at Bedtime. The Judgement of Paris. Lucas Cranach the Elder. Discord threw a golden apple inscribed 'To the Fairest', which was claimed by 3 goddesses, Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. Zeus was asked to choose which was the fairest, but he was too wise to fall for that one..

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

4 days ago

Painting at Bedtime. Reflections on the Thames. John Atkinson Grimshaw. I don't suppose a photograph or a painting nowadays would show a scene very different from this one that Grimmy painted in 1880, apart from the clothes. He was a master of the nocturnal painting.

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

4 days ago

@clarasingsart If you haven't already, you should read 'Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon', by Catherine Hewitt.

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

5 days ago

Painting at Bedtime. Still Life with Tulips and Fruit Bowl. Suzanne Valadon. Valadon came from a very poor background, became a circus performer, got injured and took to modelling for Impressionist artists. She got some help in the unlikely shape of Edgar Degas, a man...

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

4 days ago

@parker__farquer ...drunk and asked me if I would swap you for Mrs Clink. I pretended to think about it but really, you need to stop encouraging him. I think he might have been hit on the head fighting footpads when he was with the Met. Anyway Trevelyan was very happy. New mission soon. Eliot

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

4 days ago

@parker__farquer ... Please assure Hackenbacker we all appreciated his madrigal and tease him about where he went with Nanny H. MM was very well looked after by Madame Fifi, who loves children. That Dr Patchem made a small fortune with his 'hangover cure'. That idiot Clink got completely...

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Peter Jones @PeterJones40

5 days ago

...who it would be easy to characterise as a misogynist. Valadon developed her own Impressionist style and her works, often dismissed at the time, are much sought after now, particularly for her bright, vibrant colour sense.