Coendersborg is a country estate in the village of Nuis in the Dutch province of Groningen.

Estate house:-

The hall:-

Painting in above photo:-

Fireplace in another room:-

Latin motto on a wall:-

Painting of house:-

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On our trip west last April, as well as taking in the Willow Tea Rooms  (see previous posts) we also visited the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Hill House again.

It’s undergoing evaluation for remediation of the water ingress problems it was suffering from. I showed the cage it has been shrouded in here.

You can see some of the interior features in various posts I made in 2022. Look for Hill House in my search box.

Gates to Hill House:-

Information Boards:-

Some of the harling removed as part of the investigation into procedures to remediate the water ingress problem:-

Adjacent gable:-

Patch as part of remediation investigations:-

Two windows:-

Vertical window:-

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Wall plaque (which looks like a design by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, wife to Charles Rennie Mackintosh):-

Upper Level:-

Fireplace, upper level:-

Seating, upper level:-

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Seating:-

Fireplaces, lower level:-

Balcony from below:-

Glass partition at stairs:-

Stairs:-

Lower floor from top of stairs:-

Lower level from balcony:-

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These Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed tea rooms – for the famous Miss Cranston – were privately refurbished in the past few years but are now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland and seem to go by the name Mackintosh at the Willow, but that’s also the title of the affiliated gift shop next door.

We visited them because we hadn’t been there before but also to have lunch; which was excellent.

Sauchiehall Street was having work done on it at the time:-

In the photo above you can make out the circular design fronting the windows. This is a close-up:-

The Tea Rooms’ street sign:-

Internal lighting gantry:-

Wall frieze and partition wall below:-

These window curtains help diners escape scrutiny from outside:-

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Among other exhibits there are of course many prieces by Hepworth herself at The Hepworth Wakefield.

These are typical Hepworth sculpted forms:-

To left and centre; Two Forms and Three Oblique Forms:-

To right above; Three Hemispheres:-

Maquette for Sculpture for Waterloo Bridge:-

Winged Figure:-

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We had an overnight stop at Wakefield on the way back up from Bath so that we could go to The Hepworth Wakefield. It was built in commemoration of artist/sculptor Barbara Hepworth who was born in the town. As well as many of her works it now houses the municipal art collection started in 1923.

The building stands by the River Calder and was designed by British architect David Chipperfield.

From over River Calder:-

From walkway over the river:-

Entrance and rear:-

I took a video of the weir from the main road bridge:-

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Whatever I had imagined Lichfield Cathedral would contain I certainly wasn’t prepared for a huge model of planet Earth. Called Gaia, it’s an imposing artwork by Luke Jerram.

It brought home to me just how far up the planet from the South Pole the British Isles are. From most angles of the cathedral’s floor they couldn’t be seen:-

Gaia from the cathedral choir:-

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During the Great War Lavery was commissioned as a war artist. Several of his war paintings are on display at the Lavery on Location Exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery.

Mine-Laying Submarines Harwich 1917:-

Hendon 1917. Hendon was a Royal Flying Corps training base. I really liked this as I’m a sucker for biplanes:-

More sombrely this is The Cemetery, Étaples:-

Daylight Raid from my Studio:-

A Coast Defence. An 18-Pounder Anti-Aircraft Gun, Tyneside:-

Lavery was almost alone in portraying those who became casualties. Wounded, London:-

More of Lavery’s works can be seen on the Ulster Museum’s website, here.

Lavery made his name when he was commissioned to paint the State Visit of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow International Exhibition 1888. For this he had individual sittings for the privileged invitees so that he could then incorporate accurate portarits of them into his final composition.

He painted many pictures of the International Exhibition including this one of the main building. Along with many other depictions of various International or National Exhibitions, plus the Festival of Britain, I have a copy of this hanging on my study wall:-

Lavery also painted A View from the Canal, Kelvingrove, showing one of the gondolas which plied the waters of the River Kelvin as an amusement attraction:-

And this one of the exhibit The Blue Hungarians:-

One of the features of the international Exhibition was an array of restaurants and café including The Dutch Cocoa House (as depicted by Lavery below) which dispensed Van Houten products.

The above for some reason reminds me of both Edwin Hopper’s Nighthawks and Edgar Degas’s The Absinthe Drinker.

Lavery exhibited this painting in the Art Gallery at the International Exhibition. Dawn after the Battle of Langside. Mary, Queen of Scots in the aftermath of the battle:-

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