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Tag: Pembrokeshire

  • Saving the gannets

    Saving the gannets

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    Andrew Green
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    The jaunty oil sketch may look charming, but it conceals an ugly story.  It was painted by a well-known Cardiff artist, Thomas Henry Thomas, after a visit he and three friends from the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society made to Grassholm (Gwales) on 26 May 1890.  They’d come to study the bird colonies, especially northern gannets and…

  • 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…