The Four Children Making Music

There's a marvellous painting you've written about, called Four Children Making Music. Can you describe it for us? Yes, absolutely. So it's a four-child portrait by a person we know only as the master of the Countess of Warwick,. There's some speculation that he might be the painter Arnold Dereksen, but as yet we don't know. And so we have the girl to the far left of the composition. She has a beautiful, beautifully embroidered jacket and roses adorning her. Her hands are kind of awkwardly splayed across a Virgin Earth keyboard. To me, I see that as the epitome of childhood adolescent angst being taken out on

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