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Last Summer Things Were Greener by John Byam Liston Shaw.


his moving portrayal of grief shows the artist's sister Margaret Glencairn mourning her cousin George who was killed in the Boer War.

 

Fanny Cornforth

 


#otd in 1909, #PreRaphaelite model, pub landlady, art gallery owner, nurse, friend, and woman who got blamed for everything, Fanny Cornforth died in Graylingwell Asylum. My biography of her extraordinary life is out in May



Barrage Balloons outside a British Port, Eric Ravilious, 1940

 


t appears to depict Sheerness in Kent in the early years of WW2. The original artwork is in the collection of

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The River Severn at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 1770 by Paul Sandby

 


 Paul Sandby RA (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.