Hello! I'm writing a romance novel (one of many) in which a character is transported back to Regency-era England. He gets to the home of his love interest, an English lord living in the English countryside, and I was wondering how bright would a Regency-era home be at night? The main light source would be candles, right? And so even a large amount of them wouldn't completley brighten up a home like electric lights? Or would they be using gas powered lights at this point in history? I only ask because the big revelation for the character to realize that he's in 1814 England is that he recognizes the lord from a painting he had seen in his home time of 2019 and so would it be bright enough to recognize his face fully or would it be more squinting?
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