Property Illustration, Baslow, Derbyshire (2) by Brian Smith

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It's an interesting painting.

Beautifully done and so interesting to look at

Beautifully done.

Love it.

This is the sister painting to "Property Illustration, Baslow (1)" from the same aspect as the bottom left view. Some centuries earlier, the man of the house was a wheelwright and farmer, living with his family on an upper floor while the ground floor was shared between his livestock and a makeshift coach shed. A visitor chats to the lady of the house, front left, at the foot of an external staircase, since demolished for several later extensions /alterations, while her husband wheels out a repaired wagon through barn doors which are now a large bay window (see the other painting). The house is thatched, with no glass in the windows; a son sits in the shade at right plucking a bird for a special dinner and the stone post seen in the other painting sits with its gate in the centre of this yard which was apparently something of a local thoroughfare. Fascinating stuff and a joy to put together. I and my client both felt a sense of achievement by the end of it.