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Only days left to save this great masterpiece - Portrait of Omai by Joshua Reynolds - for the nation. The first grand portrait of a person of colour by a UK artist. Donate to the @artfund campaign here - every little will help https://t.co/ST6t5FOhga
I’ve been thinking a lot about this cartoon in the last few days.
It took 9 months to blast an adit wide enough to get into the mine, and to construct the storage, staff accommodation and conservation studio at #Manod. The largest painting, Van Dyck's Equestrian Portrait of Charles I arrived after a nailbiting encounter with Hen Chapel Bridge.
Saw this @tufnelljimmy and thought of you https://t.co/LI2ctQbKlk
From home counties beagling housewife to founder of international arts education charity @TheArtsSociety_ my @odnb biography of Patricia Fay (1933-1979) is published today https://t.co/jdDzd9Ak6D
'Damn the House of Commons, let it blaze away - but save, O save, the Hall!' cried the Chancellor of the Exchequer #OTD 1834, 9pm