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Painted Lady is a 1997 murder mystery drama starring Helen Mirren, involving art theft. It co-starred Franco Nero, Karl Geary and Iain Glen, and was directed by Julian Jarrold. The role was created specifically for Mirren, as a means for her to try something a bit different from her Inspector Tennison character on the popular Prime Suspect series.
The Painted Lady (1945) You and Your Child (1946) You and Your Holiday (1946) A Garden for My Child (1946) Three Sons (1946) Caravan for Three (1947) No Lady With a Pen (1947) Pumpkin the Pup (1947) Three Sisters (1947) Gipsy Flower (1949) Next Tuesday (1949) No Lady in the Cart (1949) You and Your Looks (1949) You and Your Needle (1950) You ...
Smith-Nelson Hotel, and also known as the Nelson Hotel and to locals as The Painted Lady, is a historic hotel in Reidsville, Georgia, in Tattnall County. The address of the hotel is 118 South Main Street. It is a two-story building built in 1908 and is considered Folk Victorian in architectural style. It has a hipped roof with center gables and ...
Lady Franklin was a 268-ton barque built at Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, in 1841, and was named after Jane Franklin, the wife of the governor, Sir John Franklin. The barque was best known for being seized by convicts in a mutiny in 1853. [1] [2] The vessel was used mainly for the conveyance of stores between Tasmania and Norfolk Island.
Painted Ladies in the Lower Haight, San Francisco, California. During World War I and World War II many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. [citation needed] Another sixteen thousand were demolished. Many others had the Victorian décor stripped off or covered with tarpaper, brick, stucco, or aluminum siding.
Map of Norwich 1781. The Norwich Society of Artists was founded in 1803 by John Crome and Robert Ladbrooke as a club where artists could meet to exchange ideas. Its aims were "an enquiry into the rise, progress and present state of painting, architecture, and sculpture, with a view to point out the best methods of study to attain the greater perfection in these arts."
Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling is an oil-on-oak portrait completed in around 1526–1528 by German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger.The painting shows a demurely dressed young woman sitting against a plain blue background and holding in her lap a squirrel on a chain eating a nut; a starling sits on a grape vine (Vitis vinifera) in the background with its beak ...
Frederick Sandys was born in Norwich, [2] and received his earliest lessons in art from his father, Anthony Sands, who was himself a painter. [1] His early studies show that he had a natural gift for careful and beautiful drawing. [3]