Take a chair: for his latest exhibition, Hugh Buchanan has depicted furniture by Robert Adam at Osterley and Syon. Eileen Harris examines the remarkable sympathy between architect and artist.

Apollo | November 1, 2004| | Copyright

The fact that the fourteen watercolour and acrylic paintings in Hugh Buchanan's current exhibition at the Francis Kyle Gallery are set in the drawing-rooms of two Robert Adam houses, Osterley and Syon, is unlikely to be recognised by more than a handful of historians of eighteenth century architecture and furniture, and does nof contribute anything to our appreciation of them. On the contrary, it is their ambiguity of place and scale that makes them so intriguing.

They are nof paintings of interiors, a genre for which Buchanan is well known and much admired. Their ...

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