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  • Things from Carmarthenshire

    Things from Carmarthenshire

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    Andrew Green
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    We’ll call him Dai Stoneface.  He stares out at us with dark, gouged eyes.  Someone has flattened his nose in an ancient fight, the same with the ears.  Could he have been a professional boxer?  Even the mouth is belligerent, the narrow lips drawn together in grim silence.  As someone said, you‘d feel nervous if…

  • Two Carmarthen portraits

    Two Carmarthen portraits

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    Andrew Green
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    In Carmarthenshire Museum in Abergwili are two portraits painted in 1850 in oil on board by an artist called David Patrick.  They don’t seem to have attracted much attention outside the Museum, except by Paul Joyner, but both possess a strange attraction, and deserve to be better known. Little is known about David Patrick.  He…

  • Sir John Perrot: two faces of a ruffian

    Sir John Perrot: two faces of a ruffian

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    Andrew Green
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    One of the images included in Wales in 100 objects is a small oil painting by an unknown artist, now in Haverfordwest Town Museum, of the Elizabethan magnate Sir John Perrot.  I chose this particular portrait, painted long after Perrot’s death, because it shows its subject as a jaunty, stylish and dashing character, whereas in…