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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I agre you Tony definitely no reason to apologise Lew , I much prefer your comment as they make me want to look closer . I am actually really pleased that you did comment and would ask you to do the same again if you spot something, we all gain so much from each other’s observations. 

Tessa Gwynne

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I agree too, it’s made me look a lot closer than I probably would have! I will readily admit to zipping through some of these artists who might not instantly appeal and it’s comments like this that remind me, respect the artist, look more thoroughly! Also it has always interested me to see and understand an artists working method, so this intrigues me. When I see some of the Old Masters enormous canvases, I think ‘how the heck did they do that!’ 

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Alan Bickley

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I’m undecided, but I can see why it was mentioned… however, it’s unlikely that a painter of this calibre would make such a ‘rookie’ error!

Collette Hughes

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I am glad you mentioned this Lew. I found it interesting. I don't think it in any way trashes her work.  Tessa sorry but I cannot post the photo, it's not mine and there are identifiable people in it. 

Tessa Gwynne

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No problem Collette. Just a thought, and talking of which maybe I should delete the one I found. Interesting all round.

Jenny Harris

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A modern photo of the same view.
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Lewis Cooper

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A comparison, using the photo Jenny found. The figures are too small.  But still a fantastic painting. Let's get off this now.  Here's some more of her work I like. Below...Salisbury, the Poultry Cross... Below...the Butter Market, Winchester... I think her work is outstanding.

Tessa Gwynne

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Terrific work, so much interest. Do we have an idea how big these Paintings were?

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Lew, I removed my comment because it didn't make a lot of sense otherwise; plus - I wasn't sure; not as sure as I thought I was that the figures were too small.  (No need to apologize though, you weren't to know I'd chip in on your post.) But - they are, aren't they?  This doesn't detract from the glories of her architectural painting, but it does look a little as if two different artists were working on the same picture.  Even so, it doesn't spoil them for me, even if it doesn't really help the paintings either; not least because some of the figures (and really, who am I to say so?) aren't that well painted. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Just to lower the tone - some of Hitler's watercolours, when he was struggling to establish himself as an artist and failing, were quite accomplished, if dark (probably he couldn't afford brighter pigments at the time even if he had been inclined to use them).  But his figures were likewise the wrong size for the buildings he painted: it's that which stopped him getting into the Viennese Academy; who knows how different world history would have been if only he'd had a better sense of visual proportion (because we know he had no sense of any other kind of proportion).   It is, be it said - in defence of Ms Rayner, and not of Hitler - notoriously difficult to get this right.
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Lewis Cooper

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Tessa...The Poultry Cross Salisbury (above) was 40 x 58 cm, or about 15 x 22 inches.  Small for such a wealth of detail.  I think most were around this size.  Described as watercolour with body-colour...no doubt the Chinese White Robert was talking about. The 'what-if' about Hitler is intriguing and interesting, Robert.  What if he had got into the Academy and became an artist...his work may have got into the thread, and someone, no idea who, would be saying his figures are too small.

Sylvia Evans

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How wonderful these are, I have only just seen them. H  amazing skill plus I know many of the places she has painted in fact one of them shows the Clwydian hills  and I live just over the other side. Fascinating 

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