Thursday, June 30, 2011

Ernest Gustave Girardot - A Lady Artist, 1869



David Livingstone writing in his diary at Ujiji





David Livingstone writing in his diary at Ujiji, from 'Afrika, dets Opdagelse, Erobring og Kolonisation', published 1901 in Copenhagen

William Blake Richmond - Edward Charles Wickham



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Charles_Wickham

William Blake Richmond - Portrait of Sir Arthur John Evans



Studios with an artistic past

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/article/438556/Studios-with-an-artistic-past.html

Boscastle, the village street, Cornwall



Lululand - A House Built to Last Forever?



http://www.suite101.com/content/lululand---a-house-built-to-last-forever-a197711

It doesn't mention about his earliest cimema activities and the fact he had to marry his third wife abroad as it was considered incest!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceased_Wife's_Sister's_Marriage_Act_1907

http://vienna.artfinder.com/artist/sir-hubert-von-herkomer/




Two penny blue bought for £29,000 sells for £1m at auction



Saturday, June 25, 2011

William Huggins - The Old Watermill



Charles Hunt - The cherry thieves



James Hayllar - 'Never Too Late to Learn', 1897



J.M Ives - The Four Seasons of Life: Old Age, `The Season of Rest`






The Four Seasons of Life: Old Age, `The Season of Rest`, engraved by Parsons & Atwater, pub. by Currier and Ives, New York, 1868

Lawrence Alma-Tadema photos
















Egyptian Family in a Courtyard, 1893

Alfred Gilbert in his studio





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gilbert



Piccadilly Circus memorial fountain, depicting Anteros as "the Angel of Christian Charity", but popularly referred to as Eros, one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium.

Greenwich Fair: Where Dickens let his hair down