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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Tumblr Paintings

'Mother and Child' - Frederic George Stephens - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stephens-mother-and-child-n04634

Flaming June (ca. 1895) - Frederic, Lord Leighton - http://www.museoarteponce.org/coleccion_gal/encounters-with-europe/2/44/1/1/

The Muse Erato at her Lyre (1895)John William Godward

Sappho (1903) - John William Godward


Fear - Marie Euphrosyne Spartali (later, Marie Spartali Stillman) - Red chalk on paper - c. 1870

Miranda - Thomas Francis Dicksee 

Juliet (1877) - Thomas Francis Dicksee

Portrait of a Lady - Sir Frank Dicksee 

John Singleton CopleyVenus and Cupid, c. 1779

Bartolomeo Manfredi - Allegory of the Four Seasons, 1610. Oil on canvas

William Bouguereau - Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros, 1880. - http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=584

Miranda (1868)  - Sandys 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hamlet and Ophelia - Compositional Study (1865) - http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1904P401/hamlet-and-ophelia-compositional-study/#related

Ophelia (1863-1864) by Arthur Hughes

In Realms of Fancy (1911)  - John William Godward

The Return of Persephone (1891) - Frederic Leighton  - http://www.leedsartgallery.co.uk/gallery/listings/l0033.php

The End of the Quest (1921) - Sir Frank Dicksee

Queen Eleanor 1858 Painting by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys - http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_works&item=685&type=artist


Ophelia, 1861 - Thomas Francis Dicksee

 Miranda - Dicksee 

The Birth of Venus - Cabanel

Pandora, 1873 - Cabanel 





Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Goya

'Francisco de Goya was the last of the Spanish Old Masters. He is best known for works depicting the grotesque consequences of war and the dark side of humanity.' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/francisco-de-goya

Goya - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/goya/hd_goya.htm

Born in 1746

This Sceptred Isle - 187/216

Gladstone's ambitions as Chancellor are thwarted by the onset of the Crimean War.

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02535/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=1 - William Ewart Gladstone - Heinrich Müller


http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02538/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=14 - Gladstone - Sir John Everett Millais

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02541/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&wPage=1&role=sit&rNo=39 - Alfred Edward Emslie

1854 - Crimean War

1833 - Slavery abolished throughout the Empire

1852 - Gladstone is Chancellor

Disraeli lived at No 11 Downing Street.

Disraeli doesn't give Gladstone the Chancellor's robe.

1809 -  Gladstone was born

1852 - Gladstone destroys the budget speech of Disraeli.






Monday, 13 August 2012

This Sceptred Isle - 185/216

Palmerston

The controversial politician becomes Prime Minister at the age of 71.


1855 - Earl of Aberdeen's coalition falls. Palmerstone was Home Secretary.

Palmerstone was Lord Grey and then Melbourne's Foreign Secretary.

Palmerstone was Lord John Rusell's Foreign Secretary.

Victoria called Palmerstone  'Pilgerstein'.

Victoria ends up liking Palmerstone.

Victoria loved Melbourne.


Palmerstone establised an inquiry into the Crimean War (?).

1858 - Palmerstone wins the election.


Saturday, 28 July 2012