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It was Thayer's intent that an earlier painting, My Children (Mary, Gerald and Gladys Thayer), completed in 1897, would serve as memorial to the author. [4] In that work his daughter Mary had initially been painted holding a plaque with Stevenson's monogram, but Thayer transformed the plaque into a laurel wreath and dedicated the work to his children after being told that the painting's ...
The house had five bedrooms and a library, as well as the only working fireplace in Samoa. Art and furniture on display in the house included a nude by Rodin, given to Stevenson by the artist, a tablecloth gifted by Queen Victoria and a piano. Stevenson was popular with the local community, who gave him the nickname Tusitala or "Teller of Tales ...
Mount Vaea is best known as the burial place of the Scottish writer and poet Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived the last four years of his life in Samoa before his death on 3 December 1894. Stevenson, who had lived on the east side of Mount Vaea, had chosen the mountain top as his final resting place.
The Stevenson House, is a historic two-story Spanish Colonial style building located at 530 Houston Street in Monterey, California. It was a boarding house called the French Hotel, built circa 1836. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson lived there in 1879, writing and courting his future wife.
The Bar (painting) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; The Bathers (Renoir) Bathers with a Turtle; The Bathers (Cézanne) Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door; The Beauty; Beijing 2008 (painting) The Beloved (Rossetti) Berlin Street Scene; Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait; Bharat Mata (painting) The Black Brunswicker; Black Woman with Child
Adrienne (painting) Alicia Markova "The Dying Swan" Aline Chassériau; Equestrian Portrait of Maria Amalia of Saxony; American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) Amrita Sher-Gil Self Portrait (1931) Amrita Sher-Gil Self-Portrait 7 (1930) Portrait of My Wife, the Painter Anna Ancher; Antea (Parmigianino) Arab Woman (watercolor) L'Arlésienne ...
In 1999, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, had a major retrospective of her work, entitled Images of Women Near and Far 1983-1997, the museum's first exhibition for a living female artist. [ 19 ] One of Stevens' Freedom Riders series was selected to illustrate the 1961 Freedom Riders in a 2005 panel of United States postage stamps called, "To ...
The site has hosted the Stevenson Cottage Museum since the founding of the Stevenson Society, in 1915, making it the first Stevenson museum to open and the world’s first dedicated Stevenson site. Its collection includes original furniture from Stevenson’s stay, scrapbooks with large sections of the author’s works, garments worn by ...