Eleanor Best trained at the Slade in London and was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers during the years when there was a revival of interest in both mezzotint and aquatint, evident in this work from around 1925.
A young Saul Hudson—better known to the world as Slash—photographed with his parents, Ola and Anthony Hudson, in Los Angeles around 1970. Slash grew up surrounded by rock royalty thanks to his incredibly talented artist parents His mother, Ola Hudson, was an incredibly talented African-American fashion and costume designer who famously created iconic stage outfits for legends like David Bowie, Ringo Starr, and Janis Joplin. His father, Anthony Hudson, was an English artist who created striking album cover designs for musicians like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.
Henry Lamb depicts Lytton Strachey in a characteristic languid pose for a study of his 1914 painting. Through the window, the scene includes figures resembling Dr. Arnold and Florence Nightingale, referencing subjects from Strachey's influential 1918 book Eminent Victorians.
Campbell Douglas & Steven's Kelvinside Free Church of 1863, better known today as Òran Mór, photographed around 1870. Buckingham Terrace is sneaking into shot on the right, while on the left is the back of Grosvenor Terrace.
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'Miss Collins.' (1924) William Beckwith McInnes won the Archibald Prize (Australia's prestigious award for portraiture) seven times. Writing in defence of his style of realism: 'in Australia we have not been bitten by Cubism or Futurism or other isms … and I am glad of it'.
From the margins, with lovely little toes, is an ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - completed in the 12th century, BnF Latin 14267, f. 104r
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Jules Bastien-Lepage's portrait from 1881 is of the writer Albert Woolff - with his cigarette, he looks the archetypal art critic; Woolff was an important admirer of Lepage at a time when his distinct brand of rural Naturalism was derided by traditional classicists and Impressionist radicals in Paris but loved in London.
During WW2, Stephen Bone served as a civilian camouflage officer and later as an Official War Artist attached to the Royal Navy. He was also an art critic to the Manchester Guardian from 1948. This picture depicts Ardrossan, a town on the North Ayrshire coast in Scotland, which played a key effort in the war when it was used as a naval base.