VIPs at The Museum!

This week the girls were given star treatment by the Museum in The Close.   Ruth Butler, the Education officer arranged for all the girls at Leaden Hall to be given the once in a life time opportunity of having a private viewing of  Constable’s paintings and drawings, many of which had been loaned to the Museum from private collections so it will be highly unlikely they will be on view all together ever again.  The girls had already discovered a few facts about this English Romantic painter and understood a little about the importance of Leaden Hall to him; but to actually see the paintings of our lawn where the girls play, and to discover that Leaden Hall was the ‘pot of gold’ at the end of the rainbow in the ‘six footer’ was really exciting.  We were all astounded to learn that this painting, called ‘Salisbury Cathedral from the meadows’ took him seven years to complete, longer than some of the girls have been on the planet!