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By Art and Architecture, mainly on Apr 5, 2024 in: Britain, literature, paintings
Knight, The Fishing Fleet, 1900 Boston Museum & Art Gallery.Knight, The Boys Newlyn Cornwall, 1909, Johannesburg Art Gallery.Barbara Morden’s book dealt with the British artist born to the impoverished Johnson family.
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Mar 26, 2024 in: Britain, France, history, literature, London, paintings, women
A Bluestocking was a mid C18th intellectual woman with strong scholarly or literary interests. A group was founded to discuss the arts, started by two high society ladies in Britain: heiress Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) and intellectual&nb...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Mar 12, 2024 in: Australia, Britain, Christian, Israel, literature, Melbourne
Jews, Christians and Muslims, Peoples of the Book, shared a common basis of their religious beliefs in the Jewish Bible aka the Old Testament. Recognising the two older systems as precursors to their own, Muslims granted freedom of worship to...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Mar 12, 2024 in: Australia, Britain, Christian, Israel, literature, Melbourne
Jews, Christians and Muslims, Peoples of the Book, shared a common basis of their religious beliefs in the Jewish Bible aka the Old Testament. Recognising the two older systems as precursors to their own, Muslims granted freedom of worship to...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Mar 1, 2024 in: Britain, France, literature
I REALLY wanted to buy a beautifully hand painted pair of Coalport porcelain ice pails, c1802. An orange pheasant with golden wings perched on branches blooming with red and gold flowers. Then see panels of deep cobalt blue containing swirlin...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Feb 26, 2024 in: architecture, Britain, family, literature, travel, women
Anne Lister (1791-1840) was born in Halifax Yorks and spent her childhood in her parents’ home. And she was a regular visitor to her aunt’s grand family estate Shibden Hall. Portrait of Anne Lister in her customary dark clothes,by Joshua Hor...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Feb 5, 2024 in: family, history, literature, Melbourne
Albert Bert Spencer (1886-) was born in Balmain Sydney, younger son of Henrik Henry Spencer, a Danish labourer and his wife Alice. The father died when Bert was a toddler, meaning the 3 siblings were raised by a struggling mother. Hill of Co...