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Pick of the week

For those staying at home this year, there could be no better virtual British holiday than that provided by the Maas Gallery, Clifford Street, W1), with ‘Summer in Britain', an online show of 23 essentially Victorian landscape and coastal paintings. Indeed, anyone who needs reminding of the sheer pleasure, rather than social positioning, to be had from art on the wall should have a wallow here. And the water really is lovely. Among the 16 artists are three of the best of all painters of sea water and its movement: Henry Moore (1831–95), John Brett (1831–1902) and Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917).

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