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John Locke was a prolific writer of short stories as well as a number of full-length novels. After joining the staff of the Celtic Monthly Locke wrote what is considered his finest full-length novel, The Shamrock and Palmetto. He followed this with an historical novel Ulick Grace: A Tale of the Tithes. However, he is today best remembered for ...
John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ()) [13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
Probably his Portrait of Margaret van Eyck was a pendant, although her only known portrait is both dated 1439 and larger. [2] It has been proposed that van Eyck created the portrait to store in his workshop so that he could use it to display his abilities (and social status, given the fine clothes evident in the portrait) to potential clients.
Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk, a c. 1510 chalk drawing by Leonardo da Vinci; Portrait of a Man in a Top Hat, an 1882 graphite drawing by Vincent van Gogh; Portrait of a Man in a Yellowish-Gray Jacket, a 1633 painting by Frans Hals; Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family, a 1632 painting by Rembrandt
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
Self-portrait; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery: the portrait is the subject of a long poem in a poetry collection by Ashbery, both the poem and the collection of the same name. The book won all three of the major prizes awarded to collections by American poets.
Captain Richard Patteshall (private collection) was meant to hang with the portrait of his wife. [4] Captain George Curwin (c. 1675) is owned by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. [4] The sitter of Portrait of a Man, probably Sir George Downing (1624–1684) has also been identified as Elisha Hutchinson. [10]
Portrait of a Man once belonged to Count Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn, the illegitimate son of George II of Great Britain.The painting was subsequently owned by Joseph Duveen, who sold it to Jules Bache in 1926 for $1.125 million, with the understanding that it was a genuine Velázquez. [1]