The exhibitions at The Chair change pretty frequently. Since the furore about pornographic art in the window, there have been quite a few, some of them involving paintings of nudes without any controversy whatsoever.
Yesterday, I saw something a bit different. There were some very good animal portraits in the window, but inside there were copies of Old Masters, in a variety of styles from Monet to Canaletto (Monet being very impressionistic and blurry, Canaletto being very crisp and almost photo realistic). The artist told me that he hadn't been allowed to copy the whole of the Canaletto painting, so he'd only done two thirds of the original view of a canal in Venice - and that had taken him about nine months!
I didn't get the artist's name, but he's very good!
[Edited to add: I'm told the artist is Steve Haigh]
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