Mary Seacole

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

http://www.maryseacole.com/maryseacole/pages/

Philip Alexius de Laszlo - Portrait of Mrs Virginia Heckscher McFadden

signed and dated 'de László NY. 1932 II' (lower right)
oil on canvas
41½ x 31¾ in.
Price Realized £38,400

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Arthur Grimshaw - The Clapham Omnibus

signed and dated 'Arthur K Grimshaw.1898.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
11¼ x 18 in.
Price Realized £62,400

John Atkinson Grimshaw - Hampstead Hill, looking down Heath Street

signed and dated 'Atkinson Grimshaw.1882' (lower right)
oil on canvas
17½ x 23¾ in.
Price Realized £125,600

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John Atkinson Grimshaw - In the Pleasaunce

signed and dated 'Atkinson Grimshaw 1875+' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed and dated '"In the Pleasaunce". Painted by Atkinson Grimshaw/at Ye Old Hall/Knostrop Leeds 1875' (on the stretcher).
oil on canvas
18¾ x 30 in.
Price Realized £288,000

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Ice cream on Hampstead Heath

1892

Airships

[Santos-Dumont rounding the Eiffel Tower while in the process of winning the Deutsch prize on October 19, 1901. Taken from the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum]

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

Arthur Grimshaw - Out with the Ebbing Tide

signed and dated 'Arthur E.Grimshaw.1893.' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'Out with the Ebbing Tide/Arthur E.Grimshaw' (on an old label attached to the reverse)
oil on board
7 7/8 x 13¾ in.
Price Realized £4,560

Son of John Atkinson Grimshaw, Arthur trained as a musician and was organist and choirmaster of St Anne's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Leeds from 1883. Later in the decade he composed various songs, part-songs and melodies for string orchestra.


http://www.grimshaworigin.org/WebPages/ArthGrim.htm

http://www.artnet.com/artist/688317/arthur-e-grimshaw.html

John Atkinson Grimshaw - The Chill of Autumn

signed and dated 'Atkinson Grimshaw 1881' (lower left)
oil on board
14 x 18 in.
Price Realized £78,000