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Don Juan and Haidee (“Echo” after Kenny Meadows)
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
The Angels of Boulogne
Chris Orr (1943 - )
“It isn’t manners for us to begin, you know”, said the Rose.
Peter Blake (1932 - )
Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham (1737-1814) Baron Exchequer
Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735 - 1811)
Valentine Green (1739 - 1813)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Author & Satirist
Francis, (studio) Bindon (1690 - 1765)
When the blossom is shed, the fruit comes to a head: when the body is shattered, the spirit lifts up its head (Jajal al-Din Rumi)
Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 - )
Hercules Overcomes Antæus who Opposes his Passage into Africa
Charles Joseph Dominique Eisen (1720 - 1778)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817)
George, (after) Dawe (1781 - 1829)
“Princess Pauline” at the Old Bedford
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
An Unwelcome Visit
George Moutard Woodward (1760 - 1809)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
I’ve only the friendship of hotel rooms
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
She fled along the avenue
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
The Columbian Press
Olwen Jones (1945 - )
Her handkerchief swept me along the Rhine
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
The Great Bear
Simon Patterson (1967 - )
Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and moon turn, Circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the centre (Jajal al-Din Rumi)
Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 - )
Scotland Yard with Part of the Banqueting House
Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809)
Edward Rooker (1712 - 1774)
The Defence of Terrorism
R B Kitaj (1932 - 2007)
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
Barbara Brownlee (1940 - )
Henry Pelham (1694-1754) Prime Minister
William Hoare (c.1707 - 1792)
The Wording of Police Charges
R B Kitaj (1932 - 2007)
the right end of the stick
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
Sir William Temple (1628-1699) diplomat and author
Sir Peter Lely (1618 - 1680)
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
“Richard III”: My kingdom for a horse
Alistair Grant (1925 - 1997)
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“Richard III”
John Hacker (1936 - )
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) Prime Minister
Sir Francis Grant (1803 - 1878)
Scotland Yard with Part of the Banqueting House
Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809)
Edward Rooker (1712 - 1774)
Gertrude Bell’s House in Baghdad
Florence Edith Cheesman (1877 - 1964)
Henry Pelham (1694-1754) and his secretary John Roberts
John Shackleton ( - 1767)
Yan (One)
Ronald King (1932 - )
Sir John Patteson (1790-1861) judge
Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793 - 1872)
Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887)
The Discussion
Geoffrey Tibble (1909 - 1952)
The Bench / Of the Different Meaning of the Words Character, Caracatura and Outré in Painting and Drawing
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Philips de Sadeleer (born 1560/1), merchant
Dutch 16th century unknown
The Private View [after Georgie Bowers]
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
Shakespeare’s Kings
Bernard Cheese (1925 - 2013)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) painter and 1st President of Royal Academy
Sir Joshua, (after) Reynolds
James Northcote (1746 - 1831)
Sir James Burrow (1701-1782) law reporter
Jonathan, Snr Richardson (1665 - 1745)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Andrea Soldi (c.1703 - 1771)
Photo-Eye (El Lissitzky)
R B Kitaj (1932 - 2007)
Sophia Western, from Fielding’s “Tom Jones”
John Hoppner (1758 - 1810)
John Raphael Smith (1752 - 1812)
“Macbeth”: Birnham Wood to High Dunsinane
Brian Perrin (1932 - )
Pimp (Five)
Ronald King (1932 - )
Sir David Eccles and Mr Eric Bedford on the Coronation Stands outside Buckingham Palace
John Ward (1917 - 2007)
Henry Pelham (1694-1754) Prime Minister
William Hoare (c.1707 - 1792)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) poet and philosopher
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959)
I sensed that Brenda was trying to impress me….
Glen Baxter (1944 - )
Maxton as “Hamlet”
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
Misery and Remorse
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Edwin La Dell (1914 - 1970)
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