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passion for painting

Isabelle Stuart Gardner’s palace of paintings…. Perhaps the most astonishing single aspect of Fenway Court today is the disparity between its present value and what it cost Mrs. Gardner. Morris Carter, her biographer said, said that what she paid was … Continue reading

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STICKING TO YOUR GUNS WITH A CONSTABLE

John Constable( 1776-1837 ) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home-now known as “Constable Country”-which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I … Continue reading

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