Word: westenra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painting is the work of Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, Viscount Hastings, son & heir of the Earl of Huntington. A direct descendant of Robert Hastings, steward to William the Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...
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