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THE DULWICH GALLERY RESTORED.

From: Contemporary Review  |  Date: 12/1/2000  |  Author: Bruce, Donald

A SOBER brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side: the Dulwich Picture Gallery. It does not look as if it was designed by the architect of the Bank of England to house a mausoleum hung with most of the pictures assembled for the National Gallery of Poland. Its unusual history began when a rich Welshwoman from Glamorgan, Magaret Morris, married her French tutor, Noel Desenfans, just before ...

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