New Acquisitions - the Portrait Gallery

It can be a risky business ordering prints from the internet. I've never been entirely happy with my Vermeer which is too dark and I'm not sure if the tones on my Walter Sickert are exactly right but today's delivery of my new portrait gallery are excellent, from a supplier called Nice Captain on Amazon.

The selection process is first of all dependent on who is available but the range is imaginative enough. Next, I thought Shakespeare, Bach and Mozart were a bit obvious and Larkin's not photogenic by any standards. Some of us prefer to be viewed through our work rather than what we actually look like ourselves. Quite amazingly, I have the one and only credited picture of Buxtehude on a t-shirt that is too rare and precious to ever wear so,

the elegantly disreputable James Joyce; the imperious GF Handel; the understandably worried - but heroic- Dmitri Shostakovich and somebody's drawing of Josquin's exotic headgear with him beneath it.

I'll wait until after Christmas to order frames and instal them at the other end of this room. I'd had my doubts if these were a wise purchase but I'm very pleased with them.