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In the first room hangs an 1884 portrait by Antonio de La Gandara of flamboyantly attired Rodolphe Salis, founder of the Chat Noir.

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Across the room, a striking Lorenzo Lotto portrait shows a middle-class family proudly displaying an Anatolian carpet, an expensive status symbol.

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But she's taken care to bring along a small Peter Beard photograph with a wooden frame that sits on a shelf and a Francis Bacon self-portrait drawing that's hanging in the living room.

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For an interesting comparison, see Joshua Reynolds's self-portrait of 1788, when he was 65, hanging in an adjacent room.

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Make your way through the warren of corridors to the Chop Room, where you can sit by a fireplace, watched over by a portrait of Samuel Johnson, trying not to be put off by the rather bland beer.

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