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Napper did another take of the portrait which the authorities accepted.

The picture was painted by John Napper who famously said it was, "a beautiful painting of a queen, but not this Queen".

He could well understand the stories they told of Napper Tandy, and the great rebel in the gardens of Versailles.

"Got a bit of a crack, and it put me off my napper for a spell," he said.

A club was then formed in Dublin, of which Napper Tandy became a leading member.

Napper, and indeed his friend Grattan, have totally lost their influence in the Corporation.

This was a stratagem for which Bill Napper was not prepared.