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Alphonse Kann (14 March 1870 [1] in Vienna – 1948 in London) was a prominent French art collector of Jewish heritage. He was a childhood playmate and adult friend of the writer Marcel Proust , who incorporated several of Kann's features into the character Charles Swann (in Swann in Love ).
The Death of the Earl of Chatham is the title of a 1781 oil-on-canvas painting by Boston-born American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the collapse of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham on 7 April 1778, during a debate in the House of Lords on the American War of Independence. Chatham is surrounded by peers of the realm, and the ...
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Portrait of William Pitt is an 1807 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence of the British politician William Pitt the Younger. [1] It was one of a number of depictions of prime ministers executed by Lawrence during his career. William Pitt, the son of Pitt the Elder, served as prime minister from 1783 to 1801 and again from ...
Yeo had four sittings with the King, beginning when Charles was Prince of Wales in June 2021 at Highgrove, and later at Clarence House. The last sitting took place in November 2023 at Clarence House.
Standing on a staircase, Jesus appears in the center of the painting, leaning towards Peter, who kneels to receive the keys. On the ground, lie the iconographic symbols of an open book and a sword, while in the sky, some angels, seraphs and cherubs, appear among the clouds to witness and to celebrate the event.
Jackie Chan doesn't appear in Bullet Train, the wild new action film starring Brad Pitt and helmed by maestro of mayhem, David Leitch. But both the director and his star consider the Hong Kong ...
In September 1905 Blampied transferred from the Lambeth School of Art to the London County Council School of Photo-engraving and Lithography at Bolt Court for the final year of his scholarship. There he became friends with the artists and illustrators Salomon van Abbe, John Nicolson and Robert Charles Peter.