The Art Newspaper recently had an article about the restoration of the ironwork screens created by the Huguenot exile Jean Tijou at the end of the seventeenth century for the newly laid out gardens at Hampton Court Palace. As the writer points out little is known with any certainty about Tijo, but his skill and artistry is unquestioned.
The illustrated account can be read at True mettle: restoring Hampton Court Palace's glorious but scarred Baroque iron screens
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