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"British Artist Rex Whistler Commemorated in a Colefax and Fowler Exhibition\nThe entrancing work and tragic end of British artist Rex Whistler is explored in a new exhibit and book\nArtist Rex Whistler painted this bucolic 1936 view of Ashcombe, his friend Cecil Beaton's country house in Wiltshire, England. The artist also designed a new stone doorway for the front of the house, at right, and urns to decorate its roofline as well as that of the neighboring studio, at left.\nFor millionaire art collector Sir Philip Sassoon's country house Port Lympne in Kent, England, Whistler imagined a hall as a trompe l'oeil tented pavilion, a fantasy enhanced through the application of real tassels and tent poles. The vibrant mural, which wraps the entire room, depicts an imaginary riverside city furnished with architectural landmarks such as a pavilion at Stowe, the Palladian bridge at Wilton, and the London church St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Port Lympne, now the centerpiece of a wild animal park, is open for tours.\nA close-up of Whistler's Port Lympne mural showing St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in London, at left, and part of the Palladian bridge at Wilton.\nRex Whistler's Clovelly chintz, bearing scenes of the Devon fishing village of the same name, was designed for Clovelly Silk in 1932. Some of the same images were featured on creamware manufactured by Wedgwood.\nWhistler's 1933 double portrait of Angela and Penelope Dudley Ward\u2014the daughters of the Prince of Wales's mistress Freda Dudley Ward\u2014depicts the two young debutantes at a picnic. Whistler fell in love with Penelope (the sister at right) during the commission and wrote that he was \"almost dying of her loveliness. It makes the painting very difficult.\" Though the romance never took off, Whistler ensured that he remained forever close to his beloved\u2014the fountain's satyr mask is a portrait of the artist.\nIn 1937, Whistler was commissioned to design and paint a boudoir for heiress Edwina Mountbatten's apartment in London. He produced a grisaille album of his glamorous client's life with her husband, Lord Louis Mountbatten, including depictions of family houses (one is above the marble mantel), her world travels, and her pet lion cub. Removed from the apartment at the outbreak of World War II and stored for safety, the artful paneling, as shown here, is now installed at the country residence of the Mountbattens' daughter Lady Pamela Hicks, the widow of legendary designer David Hicks.\nA 1929 illustration by Whistler, one of a comical series depicting the seasons. It appeared in a book called The New Forget-Me-Not."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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