Nell Gwyn

This painting proves there was more to Nell Gwyn than organes. In an inspirational message to local food producers this portrait demonstrates she had other artisan skills – it reveals

“The painting has never before been seen in public. It depicts Gwyn bare-breasted and stuffing sausages, a composition laden with titillating symbolism. She is dressed in white, a satirical pun on virginal purity, while a black manservant standing by her may allude to the black-haired king known as “the black man”.

I hope she was following all the requisite Health and Safety requirements or did she have a royal dispensation?