026 Anwen & Ronnie Barker
Oil on canvas, 20" x 24"
January 2012
My friend Ronnie married Anwen in June 2012.
Anwen’s favourite painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee. For a surprise wedding present, Ronnie commissioned me to paint it with the faces changed to their own.
The original painting hangs in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. It illustrates a poem by John Keats. It tells the story of a knight who comes across a damsel, with whom he falls in love. She takes him to her ‘elfin grotto’; he falls asleep, and wakes to find himself alone and trapped. Not an ideal story with which to start a marriage!
Ronnie presented the painting to Anwen at the wedding reception. She was surprised, delighted and amused by it.
January 2012
My friend Ronnie married Anwen in June 2012.
Anwen’s favourite painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee. For a surprise wedding present, Ronnie commissioned me to paint it with the faces changed to their own.
The original painting hangs in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. It illustrates a poem by John Keats. It tells the story of a knight who comes across a damsel, with whom he falls in love. She takes him to her ‘elfin grotto’; he falls asleep, and wakes to find himself alone and trapped. Not an ideal story with which to start a marriage!
Ronnie presented the painting to Anwen at the wedding reception. She was surprised, delighted and amused by it.
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026 Anwen & Ronnie Barker
Oil on canvas, 20" x 24"
January 2012
My friend Ronnie married Anwen in June 2012.
Anwen’s favourite painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee. For a surprise wedding present, Ronnie commissioned me to paint it with the faces changed to their own.
The original painting hangs in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. It illustrates a poem by John Keats. It tells the story of a knight who comes across a damsel, with whom he falls in love. She takes him to her ‘elfin grotto’; he falls asleep, and wakes to find himself alone and trapped. Not an ideal story with which to start a marriage!
Ronnie presented the painting to Anwen at the wedding reception. She was surprised, delighted and amused by it.
January 2012
My friend Ronnie married Anwen in June 2012.
Anwen’s favourite painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee. For a surprise wedding present, Ronnie commissioned me to paint it with the faces changed to their own.
The original painting hangs in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. It illustrates a poem by John Keats. It tells the story of a knight who comes across a damsel, with whom he falls in love. She takes him to her ‘elfin grotto’; he falls asleep, and wakes to find himself alone and trapped. Not an ideal story with which to start a marriage!
Ronnie presented the painting to Anwen at the wedding reception. She was surprised, delighted and amused by it.
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026 Anwen & Ronnie Barker
Oil on canvas, 20" x 24"
January 2012
My friend Ronnie married Anwen in June 2012.
Anwen’s favourite painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee. For a surprise wedding present, Ronnie commissioned me to paint it with the faces changed to their own.
The original painting hangs in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. It illustrates a poem by John Keats. It tells the story of a knight who comes across a damsel, with whom he falls in love. She takes him to her ‘elfin grotto’; he falls asleep, and wakes to find himself alone and trapped. Not an ideal story with which to start a marriage!
Ronnie presented the painting to Anwen at the wedding reception. She was surprised, delighted and amused by it.
January 2012
My friend Ronnie married Anwen in June 2012.
Anwen’s favourite painting is La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee. For a surprise wedding present, Ronnie commissioned me to paint it with the faces changed to their own.
The original painting hangs in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. It illustrates a poem by John Keats. It tells the story of a knight who comes across a damsel, with whom he falls in love. She takes him to her ‘elfin grotto’; he falls asleep, and wakes to find himself alone and trapped. Not an ideal story with which to start a marriage!
Ronnie presented the painting to Anwen at the wedding reception. She was surprised, delighted and amused by it.
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