Recant!

January 10 2012

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Picture: National Trust

I recently highlighted the National Trust's splendid new online database, and risked attributing a few unattributed pictures that caught my eye. I've now had the benefit of seeing higher resolution digital images, and I must go straight to the naughty step for being wrong on the above portrait. Catalogued as 'English School', I suggested it might be by William Dobson. But it is not. Gilbert Soest is a possible alternative name that has been put forward, for whom it would have to be quite an early work. Happily, it looks as if I was right about the other pictures. Sorry to any Dobson fans who might have got excited...

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