Tag Archives: Sir Thomas Lawrence

service before show

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dave

The travails and perils of finding a home. In the case of the Duke of Wellington, it took on palatial magnitude. Poor chap. All he really wanted was a little place in the country to relax and hunt. But to … Continue reading →

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house hunters

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Dave

The Duke of Wellington’s prospects seemed pretty flat. The greatest war hero in English history, the Wonder of Waterloo could not dind a ducal home and the money was there from the Parliament. Lots of it, to create “a lasting … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Duke of Wellington, Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Splendens, Frederick Lamb, Harriette Wilson courtesan, John Rutter, John Soane, Lord Douro Wellington's son, Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, Lord Rivers Stratfield Saye, Robert Smirke, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stratfield Saye, William Beckford, William Hazlitt | Leave a comment

a fiesty collector

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Dave

Isabella Stewart Gardner. “Mrs. Jack” startled staid Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy… In Seville, in 1888, Mrs. Gardner bought her first old master-a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Antonio Moro portrait of Mary Tudor, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Pallffy, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, john sargent singer, John Sargent Singer El Jaleo, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mantegna, P.A.B. Widener, Pesellino wedding chests, Piero de Medici, Richard Norton, Rubens The Rape of Europa, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Titian The Rape of Europa, Van Dyck, Velazquez portraits, Vermeer The Concert, Zurbaran Madonna | Leave a comment

DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Dave

His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh | Leave a comment

DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Dave

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading →