The children were sitting painting at the kitchen table.

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The most coveted table, underneath a painting called The Absinthe Drinker, was, as ever, "reserved".

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There is a metre-high oil painting of actress above the dining table and a photo of her on the fireplace in the lounge.

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Over the head table at the lunch will hang an 1865 painting, "View of the Yosemite Valley, " by American artist Thomas Hill.

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