blog update

Moving tomorrow. Virgin Media tell me I'll be reconnected by the 26th (sigh) so see you then. Going for a break back on the 6th April.

Vyvyan, Oscar and Constance

ST. PATRICKS DAY

The Windmiller’s Guest, Edmund Blair Leighton

Summer at Cowes - Philip Wilson Steer

British Soldiers, Arras 1918

The Lord of Burleigh Edmund Blair Leighton

Where There’s a Will Edmund Blair Leighton

motorcycle

Dod Procter, The Hall Table (n.d.)

Critics on Costume Fashion’s Change - John Callcott Horsley 1880

Ice cream - c. 1910s

The Pearl Necklace (1932-41) Dod Procter

The Quiet Hour - Dod Procter

Self-portrait (c.1913). Laura Knight

Dressing the Children - Laura Knight 1906

Joan Rhodes by Dame Laura Knight

Elsie on Hassan - Laura Knight 1930

Laura Knight - The dock of Nuremberg

Laura Knight, A Dark Pool, c.1908-18

Moulin Rouge, 1914

Dorothy Tennant George Frederic Watts

Death Crowning Innocence, 1886-7 George Frederic Watts

Thomas Brooks, The Stepping Stones, (not dated)

Prayer - Thomas Brooks 1862

Denishaw Dancers, by Putnam Valentine Studios, c.1918

Brooch 1910

Olive Margaret Slaughter, Anthony Frederick Sandys

Adelaide Mary, Mrs Philip Bedingfeld by Frederick Sandys, 1859

1911- Photograph of Queen Mary

1911- Photograph of Queen Mary, standing in full length portrait and wearing State Robes for the Opening of Parliament together with full mourning dress for Edward VII. She faces the viewer and wears Queen Victoria’s Koh-I-Noor diadem, earrings, two large bow brooches and Crown Collet necklace. Cullinans I and II are worn as a brooch on the Garter sash and at her neck she wears a seven row diamond necklace.

London Terrace Charles Ginner

Charles Ginner, La Vieille Balayeuse, Dieppe 1913

70 Patrick Street, Cork by National Library of Ireland

Linley Sambourne

Mafalda (1934). Leonard Campbell Taylor

Princess Mafalda of Savoy was married to Queen Victoria’s Great Grandson and was the daughter of the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III. During WW II, Adolf Hitler believed she was working against the war effort; he called her the “blackest carrion in the Italian royal house.” She was imprisoned and died at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

#art#reading#Princess Mafalda of Savoy#British#WW II#Adolf Hitler#Buchenwald

The Hall - Leonard Campbell Taylor

The rain, it raineth every day - Leonard Campbell Taylor

Leonard Campbell Taylor

Good books

Children's book

Leonard Campbell Taylor - Blue Dress

The Sampler - Leonard Campbell Taylor ~1932

Ruth St. Denis in The Peacock.

Portrait of the Hon. Mrs Ernest Guinness by Dicksee - 1912

Ellen Terry George Frederic Watts

Leeds Canal - Charles Ginner 1914

ham radio

Phoebus Apollo (1895), Briton Rivière

Aphrodite (1902), Briton Riviere

Coat 1910s