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Rachel Whiteread (1963 - )
Frances Anne Crewe (neé Greville), Lady Crewe (1748-1818) as St. Genevieve
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Thomas Watson ( - 1781)
The Angels of Boulogne
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Sixth-Form Bench, Eton
Percival Skelton
Buckingham Palace from St. James’s Park
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)
Trafalgar Square
Evelyn Abelson (1886 - 1967)
The Encampment in Hyde Park, 1780
Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809)
Infantry Brigade Signal Office, Flanders HQ
Francis Patrick Martin (1883 - 1966)
Royal Institution, Albemarle Street
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
A Studious Sailor
Roger K Furse (1903 - 1972)
Exhibition of Water Coloured Drawings, Old Bond Street
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Le Billet Doux
Nicolas Lavreince (1737 - 1807)
Nicolas Delaunay (1739 - 1792)
The Chapel Royal, Hampton Court
James Digman Wingfield (1800 - 1872)
Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876) judge
Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793 - 1872)
Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887)
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
John, I Murphy (c1748 - )
Guard Relaxing, the Stables, Wynnstay
Patrick Gierth
Society of Agriculture
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
The Public Schools, & Part of Exeter College Library, from the Garden
Frederick Nash (1782 - 1856)
John Hill (1770 - 1850)
The Encampment in Hyde Park, 1780
Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809)
Board of Trade
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Thomas Sunderland (1744 - 1828)
Buckingham Palace from St. James’s Park
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)
Buckingham Palace from St. James’s Park
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)
Rain, Shuttlecock and Stolen Kisses
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Exhibition of Water Coloured Drawings, Old Bond Street
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
On the Way
Hubert Andrew Freeth (1912 - 1986)
Society of Agriculture
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Osborne in 1865
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802 - 1873)
John Alfred Vinter (c1828 - 1905)
La Toilette
Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
Nicholas Joseph Voyez (1742 - 1806)
A Sheet of Figure Studies
George Jones (1786 - 1869)
The Duke of Wellington’s Library, Study and Sleeping Apartment, at Walmer Castle, and the Room in which he died, 14 September 1852, Aged 84 Years
Frederick Shephard
Thomas Henry Ellis (1814 - 1886)
Woman’s Sphere (“Echo” after John Gilbert)
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
9: Louis
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
Ladies in a Country House Garden
John Melchior Barralet
The Upper Room of the Gibraltar Garrison Library
J M Carter
Thomas Coleman Dibdin (1810 - 1893)
Le Hamac
James Joseph Jacques Tissot (1836 - 1902)
Life at the Seaside, Ramsgate 1854
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899)
Mrs Maria Anne Fitzherbert (1756-1837) Famous Beauty
Richard Cosway (1742 - 1821)
Jean Condé (1765 - 1794)
Interior of the Royal Exchange
John Chapman
Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812)
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815)
Find a Pussy Lose a Head
Bob Bain (1949 - 1989)
The Geisha Girl
Ikeda Eisen (1790 - 1848)
Life at the Sea-Side, Ramsgate
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899)
Mrs. Fontana reading Bernard Shaw
Carel Weight (1908 - 1997)
Life at the Sea-Side (Ramsgate Sands)
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899)
Untitled (25)
Adrian Wiszniewski (1958 - )
Life at the Sea-Side (Ramsgate Sands)
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899)
The Greenhouse
John Minton (1917 - 1957)
Maria Anne Fitzherbert (1756-1837) famous beauty; morganatic wife of George IV
Richard, (After) Cosway
Military College, Chelsea
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Thomas Sutherland (1785 - 1838)
The Radcliffe Library
Frederick Mackenzie (1787 - 1854)
John Bluck
Books I’ll Never Read Twice
Richard Galpin (1975 - )
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