For those of you who do not know Compton Verney is a wonderful artistic gem set in the rolling south Warwickshire countryside. It was paid for by the millions earned from Football Pools and has wonderful permanent collection as well as world class visiting exhibitions and paintings. One of those paintings is the painting of King Charles 1st by Sir Anthony Van Dyke. I sat down and sketched two of the three heads and it was real privilege to have the time just to really study this fine painting. In fact it is more of a technical blue print than work of art as it was created so that an italian sculpture could make a bust of Charles. 
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