The Empty Lap of Luxury

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Barbara Lydecker Crane

The Empty Lap of Luxury

 

        Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, an unfinished painting
        by Thomas Gainsborough, England, about 1750.
       
      It started well enough. My father owed
      a debt to hers, and so I said I’d paint
      the pair. They posed on land that was bestowed
      on . . .
      . . . . . . .
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