Greenwich's Painted Hall to be restored
November 7 2012
The Guardian reports that Sir James Thornhill's painted hall in Greenwich is to be restored. A large part of the cost is being met by our new best friends, the Heritage Lottery Fund:
The £335,000 grant from the heritage lottery fund will pay most of the cost of the £475,000 first phase of the work, on the enormous west wall, which features giant figures of George I towered over by allegories of naval victory, surrounded by children and grandchildren including the future King George II and Prince Frederick, father of the future King George III, with the artist himself standing meekly in the shadows in the foreground.
The total cost including later work on the ceiling and remaining walls will be more than £2m. Events including scaffold tours are planned while the work is carried out.
