Dr Annette Rubery

Historical biographer writing about Sir John Vanbrugh and his circle. Member of @SamJohnsonSoc and Associate Fellow of the @RoyalHistSoc. Views my own.

[Dr Annette Rubery @AnnetteRubery]

Great Rusty pre-dinner moment; he got @RichardBratby’s attention by somehow wriggling into the curtain loop and then couldn’t get out.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Omnia sponte fluant, absit violentia rebus — “Let everything flow spontaneously; let violence be absent from things.”

[Richard Bratby @RichardBratby]

Double opera review: La fanciulla del West @operahollandpk and Der Rosenkavalier @GarsingtonOpera

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I’m certainly not a Jacobite, but who could resist a tin with Bonnie Prince Charlie on it? The other tin is for my growing collection of water soluble wax crayons.

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@ruth_millington Last I heard, the Gentileschi had been lent to the National Gallery!

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Thank goodness someone has said this. Couldn’t agree more @ruth_millington, it’s a national scandal what they have done to our art collection.

[Ruth Millington @ruth_millington]

For @Telegraph, I wrote about the case of the missing masterpieces at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Where are great works by William and May Morris, the city's radical Surrealists, Sandro Botticelli, Orazio Gentileschi, Simone Martini, Eugène Delacroix and Canaletto?

[Dr Annette Rubery @AnnetteRubery]

Figure drawing at Euston and a drawing which went wrong yesterday and ended up looking like a fight. Leaning into that.

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Enjoyed a trip to Garsington yesterday for Rosenkavalier. Surprisingly we didn’t see any red kites trying to steal picnics - not sure what’s got into them.

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Lovely trip to Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire - a Stuart country house with plenty of Mannerist craziness.

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@ArianeTodes I meant to buy the very soft drawing one instead of the writing one, but it’s still great!

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Succumbed to the hype and bought a Blackwing pencil. I’m not disappointed!

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Been drawing things around me, including this vintage Buddha necklace - gifted to me by a former colleague of my husband’s. I think she bought it in China.

[Richard Bratby @RichardBratby]

Glyndebourne tomorrow. The opera critic faces the Country House season...

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Annette's musical edit. Apologies to Gershwin.

[Richard Bratby @RichardBratby]

A tour of my garden. By steam train, naturally.

[Dr Annette Rubery @AnnetteRubery]

I’m doing a course in contour drawing and using comics as a way of building confidence in urban sketching. Started this one about our weekend breakfast with Rusty. Drawing is all over the shop but I’m quite pleased that I made it this far.

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@SueCooperBridge Definitely - have never been before!

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Off to Versailles soon - let us eat cake!!

[Dr Annette Rubery @AnnetteRubery]

New fountain pen. Filled it with waterproof sketching ink in grey.

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

Like many of you, I am disgusted with people using AI to write any kind of text, but I am even more annoyed to see educated people, with doctoral degrees, well-paid tenured faculty positions, who allegedly have two brain cells, using AI to created ugly, pathetic visual images.