Portrait Artist at Covent Garden, London 1989
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This 1989 view captures one of Covent Garden’s familiar street attractions, with a portrait artist at work on the cobbles while a suited customer sits for his sketch beside the market buildings. The painted signboard gives plenty of period detail, advertising Portrait Drawing £8, with prices for pencil and watercolour work and the boast Best in London Town, while sample portraits are clipped to the display. Around them, shoppers and browsers move through the market, postcard racks and stalls visible in the background, reinforcing Covent Garden’s late-1980s identity as a place of casual entertainment, art and people-watching as much as shopping. The scene works well as a record of the area’s street culture, when artists, performers and traders all helped animate the piazza beneath the restored market buildings.
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