Some of the agricultural equipment at Carmarthenshire County Museum (pic courtesy of CofGar and free for use for all BBC wire partners) THE last portrait of poet Dylan Thomas has arrived at Carmarthenshire County Museum, where it joined thousands of other objects and artefacts which provide a glimpse into the past. Painted at Thomas’s boathouse and writing shed in Laugharne by artist Gordon Stuart in September 1953 – two months before the poet’s death – the portrait was bought at auction by Carmarthenshire Council for £15,000. The council-run museums service has around 42,000 “accessions” – a number assigned to each acquisition – which comprise some 70,000 individual objects.