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Wig	[Dec. 16th, 2016\|10:42 am] Tony Grist
This is the poet and playwright William Congreve, painted by Godfrey Kneller in 1709. Just look at that thing he's got on his head. I mean, really... Kneller ran a portrait factory. He painted the faces and his assistants filled in everything else. "So what do you do for a living, son." "I work for Mr Kneller, the portrait painter." "That must be interesting." "It is. I've got the best job in the studio: I paint wigs."
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cmcmck
2016-12-16 12:43 pm (UTC)

And it wasn't just you lot either!

Edited at 2016-12-16 12:46 pm (UTC)

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poliphilo
2016-12-16 03:37 pm (UTC)

Some of those must have been headache-inducing.

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sorenr
2016-12-16 01:53 pm (UTC)

The wig is marvellously painted, though!

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poliphilo
2016-12-16 03:44 pm (UTC)

I quite like Kneller's work. He wasn't a great painter but he had his points.

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lblanchard
2016-12-16 02:35 pm (UTC)

That's certainly a beaut, wig-wise.

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poliphilo
2016-12-16 03:46 pm (UTC)

I chose a well-known figure. If I'd gone for a forgotten aristocrat I could have given you something even more overwhelming.

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matrixmann
2016-12-16 06:27 pm (UTC)

This may be really mean and very distant in the topic... but, what was that about "hair metal"?

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poliphilo
2016-12-16 06:51 pm (UTC)

Big hair is a little silly no matter what era it appears in.

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