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City's Historic Painting Restored
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| The painting shows spectators at the
Roodee racecourse |
The first-known oil painting of Chester has gone back on display in
the city's Grosvenor Museum after being restored.
Chester and the Roodee, which shows a view of the city from the
south-west, was painted by Pieter Tillemans some time between 1710
and 1734.
It was presented to the museum in 1894 by the first Duke of
Westminster, becoming the first painting to enter the museum's
collection.
Heavily-discoloured varnish and old re-touchings were removed.
The knoll in the foreground of the painting rises high above the
River Dee.
Between the river and the city is an expanse of low-lying land
called the Roodee.
The painting depicts horse-racing on the Roodee, the course marked
by posts and crowds of spectators lining the western city wall.
Organised horse-racing began on the Roodee in 1540, giving Chester a
longer continuous history than any other racecourse in the British
Isles, a museum spokesman said.
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