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Sir Walter Raleigh: How an Elizabethan Icon Was Reimagined in Georgian Britain

18th Century Art Art Research British Portraiture Collectors Journal Elizabeth I Elizabethan England Elizabethan Portraiture English School Georgian Art Georgian Britain Historical Portraits Lennard Portrait National Portrait Gallery Old Master Portraits Provenance Research Roanoke Sir Walter Raleigh Tower of London Virginia Walter Raleigh Woolley & Wallis

Sir Walter Raleigh: How an Elizabethan Icon Was Reimagined in Georgian Britain

An intimate eighteenth-century portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh reveals how the image of one of Elizabethan England’s most celebrated figures survived through paintings, engravings and Georgian fascination with Britain’s national past.

 

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Frank Watson Wood and HMS London: A Royal Navy Portrait from the First World War

Art Research British Art British Expeditionary Force British Naval Art Collectors Journal Dardanelles Edmund Walter Anstice First World War Frank Watson Wood Gallipoli HMS London Marine Painting Maritime Art Maritime History Naval Watercolour Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Provenance Research Royal Navy Royal Navy History WW1 Naval Art

Frank Watson Wood and HMS London: A Royal Navy Portrait from the First World War

A signed First World War watercolour by celebrated marine artist Frank Watson Wood captures HMS London during a pivotal period in Royal Navy history, accompanied by remarkable surviving material connected with future Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Walter Anstice.

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King William III: Portraiture, Power and the Glorious Revolution

18th Century Art After Sir Godfrey Kneller Art Conservation Art Research British Art British Royal Portraits Collectors Journal Glorious Revolution Great George Historical Portraits King William III Late Stuart Art Mary II Order of the Garter Royal Portraiture Scottish Provenance Sir Godfrey Kneller Stuart Monarchy William of Orange

King William III: Portraiture, Power and the Glorious Revolution

An imposing early eighteenth-century portrait of King William III reveals how royal imagery projected authority after the Glorious Revolution, from Sir Godfrey Kneller’s influential portrait types to the ancient symbolism of the Order of the Garter.

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Walter Linsley Meegan: Moonlight Over Victorian Liverpool

19th Century Art Architectural Painting Art Research British Art British Cityscape Collectors Journal John Atkinson Grimshaw Liverpool Art Liverpool Paintings Moonlight Painting Nocturne Painting Trinity Church Liverpool Victorian Art Victorian Liverpool Victorian Nocturne Walter Linsley Meegan

Walter Linsley Meegan: Moonlight Over Victorian Liverpool

An atmospheric late Victorian nocturne of Trinity Church reveals Walter Linsley Meegan’s fascination with Liverpool after dark, where architecture, figures and street lighting emerge dramatically through shadow and silvery moonlight.

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James Gordon (1824–1901): Rediscovering a Portrait by Alice Gates

Alice Gates Art Attribution Art Research British Art British Sculpture Bronze Portrait Collectors Journal Edwardian Art Edwardian Sculpture James Gordon Liverpool Art Memorial Sculpture Portrait Relief Provenance Research Walker Art Gallery Women Sculptors

James Gordon (1824–1901): Rediscovering a Portrait by Alice Gates

An indistinct signature on an early Edwardian bronze portrait of James Gordon (1824–1901) led to an intriguing discovery: sculptor Alice Gates exhibited The late James Gordon, Esq. at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery in 1902, providing compelling evidence for the portrait’s newly researched attribution.

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