These images are paintings by the artist Margaret Dovaston. Ignored by the art establishment, they have graced countless waiting rooms and living rooms, although their popularity is now quite diminished. I once bought a print of the second picture at a car boot sale but I somehow lost it at work. They are redolent of an earlier age; most take place in a country inn, or some in a squire's house. The sort of scenes which they show would have been familiar to that famous diarist Parson Woodforde; scenes of a natural life unsullied by many aspects of today. But dentistry was bad; and life could be short for the unfortunate.
A website on Margaret Dovaston can be found at http://sueburton.co.uk/dovaston/margaret/moremargaret.htm
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