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He was born in the Close of Lincoln Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, May 1859. He was one of seven children, six boys and one girl. His father was a verger at the cathedral. [2] As a boy, William attended Lincoln School (now Lincoln Christ's Hospital School), and also earned money by guiding visitors up the central tower of the cathedral. [2]
The Sources of Music and The Triumph of Music are two murals that Marc Chagall painted in 1966 for the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center in New York City.. Following a commission by the Metropolitan House for Chagall's set and costume design for Mozart's The Magic Flute for its inaugural season, [1] the murals were created for the lobby of the opera house, and are visible to the ...
Crazy vaults in St. Hugh's Choir. Geoffrey de Noiers, sometimes styled de Noyer, was a master mason who designed the choir of Lincoln Cathedral in the late 12th century. . Between 1192 and 1200 he designed the cathedral's St. Hugh's choir, built in 1208, using an innovative vaulting scheme that represented the first example of decorative vaulting in E
Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 8, 1856, into a well-to-do family of English-Irish heritage. [1] He had four older and four younger siblings. His mother, Emily Williams Cooper, whose ancestor emigrated to the U.S. from Weymouth, England, [2] was an amateur painter in watercolors. [3]
Frederick Lincoln Stoddard (March 7, 1861 - February 24, 1940) was an artist known for his stained glass, paintings and murals, with notable pieces designed as public works in Missouri, New York, and Massachusetts.
Apprenticed to John Raphael Smith, the mezzotinter and portrait painter, he bought his freedom from Smith in 1806, on condition that he supplied 18 oil paintings over the following two years. In 1806 he visited Lincoln for the first time, with the painter of historical subjects William Hilton, R.A., whose sister Harriet he married in 1810. They ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [71] Self-Portrait: c. 1836: Oil on canvas 55.9 by 45.7 centimetres (22.0 in × 18.0 in) New-York Historical Society, New York [72] [73] The Oxbow [note 5] 1836 Oil on canvas 130.8 by 193 centimetres (51.5 in × 76.0 in) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [74] The Course of Empire: The Savage State
Revson Fountain is a fountain installed in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The fountain was dedicated in 1964 and a redesign was completed in 2009.