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Capriccio is a large wall mural by the English painter Rex Whistler (1905–1944). It hangs in the dining room of Plas Newydd, the historic home of the Marquesses of Anglesey, now owned by the National Trust, which has views over the Menai Strait and the mountains of Snowdonia in North Wales. The mural is Whistler's largest work, and also the ...
Plas Newydd (Welsh for 'new hall') is a country house set in gardens, parkland and surrounding woodland on the north bank of the Menai Strait, in Llanddaniel Fab, near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales. The current building has its origins in 1470, and evolved over the centuries to become one of Anglesey's principal residences.
Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life and His Work, Frances Lincoln (2012) Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, Rex Whistler at Plas Newydd, 1936–38, National Trust (2019) ISBN 978-0-70780448-4; Anna Thomasson, A Curious Friendship – The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing, Macmillan (2015)
At Plas Newydd, the 6th Marquess commissioned the artist Rex Whistler to undertake a decorative mural scheme. The trompe-l'œil paintings and murals and a permanent exhibition of Whistler memorabilia are now one of the major attractions at the property.
Rex Whistler: Lady Elizabeth Hester Mary Paget, later Lady von Hofmannsthal (1916 - 1980) ... Plas Newydd : References: National Trust Collections ID: 1176297 ;
During the 1930s, she was a notable British socialite, and a minor actress. She was beloved of the artist Rex Whistler, who painted numerous portraits of her, including a startling nude, [1] which is on display at Plas Newydd, (the ancestral home of the Marquess of Anglesey).
A frequent guest to the house was the artist Rex Whistler, whose rebuses, juvenalia, paintings, and reversible faces (OHOs) are on display in a room set aside as a museum. Capriccio —an enormous mural by Whistler, his last finished mural—decorates the dining room, [ 97 ] from whose windows the Menai Suspension Bridge , a symbol of the ...
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