There were forty portraits in this gallery in 1998 and there are eleven now, and the eleven are all facing the wall.

CorvinaWe turned them after the war. Not out of shame. They were watching. You could feel it walking past and everybody in the house felt it.

PorterPortraits watch. That is what portraits are for. My aunt had one that followed you around a room and everyone thought it was charming.

CorvinaYour aunt had a painting. This house had a limner, and a limner does not paint what you look like.