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The painting depicts a life
like peacock in a classical garden complete with statuary and a
profusion of flowers. To increase the lumessence the painter has
used a ground of bronze and gold.
"During the decades of quality painted work, struggling artists
often worked incognito, painting on papier mâché in order to support
their purer artistic efforts. They seldom marked their work, possibly
because the firms they worked for did not approve of artist
identification, or possibly because they themselves did not wish to
advertise the fact that their work could be bought on a piece of
applied, rather than pure art. Jennens and Bettridge sometimes had the
name of the firm painted on the margin of pictures. "Studios"
for the decoration of blanks were set up as early as the last two
decades of the 18th century. Joseph Barney, a fruit and flower painter,
Haseler, and Robert Noyes, were some of the first artists working in
this way. It is impossible to know whose hand was responsible for some
of the wonderful painting and decoration on papier mâché boxes."
(See: Antique
Boxes, Tea Caddies, and Society 1700--1880 Antigone Clarke &
Joseph O'Kelly, pages 82-86. ISBN: 0764316885)
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