National Portrait Gallery – A S H Smyth http://www.ashsmyth.com Will write for money Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:48:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.4 ‘Beauty retire’ – or; Some notes on a portrait of Samuel Pepys http://www.ashsmyth.com/beauty-retire-or-some-notes-on-a-portrait-of-samuel-pepys/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/beauty-retire-or-some-notes-on-a-portrait-of-samuel-pepys/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:37:57 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=2929 The odd (and possibly inconsequential) story of Pepys’s portrait, his song, and his relationship with Mrs Knepp.

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