Stories By Sarah Mills
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Halloween Special
Fighting Skeletons of James Ensor
October 26, 2018We can’t let Halloween pass by without mention of the late Victorian avante-garde painter James Ensor. Often likened to Munch is his ability to convey the miseries of human experience, while often macabre his paintings are...
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Victorian Era
Five MORE Things Everyone Should Know About The Victorians
July 6, 2018The last time that we talked about the Victorians we looked at steam travel, Alice in Wonderland, Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelites and Sherlock Holmes, so what shall we look at next? How about The Gothic, Jack the...
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Art History 101
Five Things Everyone Should Know About The Victorians
May 28, 2018What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I for one almost always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, Charles Dickens, pea-soupers (thick London fog),...
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20th century
Meet Beautiful Cats by Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe
April 24, 2018Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, the British engraver, illustrator, and painter perhaps best known for his paintings of birds, painted many other animals besides including monkeys, dogs, bulls and indeed humans! My favorite Tunnicliffe paintings though are his...
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History
Queen Elizabeth I – Portraits of the Last Tudor Rose
March 20, 2018Queen Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Being a girl was hard enough in the face of Henry’s desperation for...
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20th century
Charles Keeping: An Extraordinary English Illustrator
February 20, 2018Today I would like to talk about Charles Keeping, an illustrator whom I discovered in my childhood. You may already be familiar with his work, perhaps from your own childhoods and especially if you were ever...
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