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2 unusual facts about William Scrots


William Scrots

In the words of art historian Ellis Waterhouse, "although Scrots was not a painter of high creative or imaginative gifts, he knew all the latest fashions, and a series of paintings appeared at the English court during the next few years which could vie in modernity with those produced anywhere in northern Europe".

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These may relate to the only large-scale Mannerist project in England, then nearing completion, Nonsuch Palace in Surrey.



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