John Collier paintings

John Collier paintings
Jose Royo paintings
Juarez Machado paintings
had never in his life done before—he remarked of his elder brother, who, after a tediously successful diplomatic spent in gold-lace or starched linen allowed himself in retirement (and reduced circumstances) some laxity in dress: “Poor Tony goes about looking like a scarecrow.”
Life in the country palled when food rationing ceased. Angela made over the house they had called “Cedric’s Folly” and its grottoes to her son Nigel on his twenty-first birthday, and took a large, unobtrusive house in Hill Street. She had other places to live, a panelled seventeenth-century apartment in Paris, a villa on Cap Ferrat, a beach and bungalow quite lately acquired in Bermuda, a little palace in Venice which she had once bought for Cedric Lyne but never visited in his —and among them they moved with their daughter Barbara. Basil settled into the orderly round of the rich. He became a creature of habit and