Plas Newydd in Anglesey is a large country mansion house - the home of the Marquess of Anglesey. It has the largest collection of Rex Whistler and also houses a Military museum with relics of the battle of Waterloo.
There is a really large painting on the wall of the dinning room by Rex Whistler which is spectacular, of a fantasy port somewhere in the Mediterranean.
REX WHISTLER (1905 -1944), aged 22, he completed his first big commission: a huge mural in the restaurant of the Tate Gallery, London - soon to be dubbed 'the most amusing room in Europe'.
Later he carried out other mural commissions, including those at Port Lympne, Kent, Mottisfont, Hampshire, and - his masterpiece - the 47 foot Claudian fantasy at Plas Newydd, Isle of Anglesey.
He also painted portraits, landscapes, and humorous sketches for advertising; but was perhaps best known for his exquisite book illustrations (in such titles as Gulliver's Travels, and Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales) and for his fine theatre designs. He collaborated with Geilgud, de Valois, Cochran and others on productions as various as Fidelio, Victoria Regina, The Rake's Progress, and Wake Up and Dream.
Worth a look if you find yourself in North Anglesey.
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