Two bottles of Bass Ale on the bar in Manet’s 1882 masterpiece A Bar at Folies-Bergere connect us in a wink to an increasingly distant world. They may also be one of the first, albeit inadvertent, examples of product placement.
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There’s an English arts and crafts painting that also has a Bass in it. A picture of William Morris’s settle or summat.