Another National Trust exhibit today. Plas Newydd on Anglesey is the seat of the Marquess of Anglesey. In the dining room you will find Rex Whistler's extravagant Italianate-styled mural, almost ten metres in length. As a guest at the Marquess's table you would either be facing the mural or, your back to it, the Menai Strait and Snowdonia. No losers there - perhaps they used to swap round after each course.
Whistler (born 1905) died on active service in Normandy in 1944. The flanking panel of the mural (not shown here) includes a modest self-portrait of Whistler sweeping the floor.
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