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| Édouard Vuillard Misia at the piano ca. 1895-96 oil on cardboard Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Horace Vernet Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen with his bust of Horace Vernet ca. 1833 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Johann Baptist Lampi Portrait of Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, the last Holy Roman Empress ca. 1804-1806 oil on canvas private collection |
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| John Hamilton Mortimer Jack Broughton the Boxer ca. 1767 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of William Fermor 1757 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
The Fields Beneath (St. Pancras Old Church)
I make my tour
of the garden waiting room
where the tall trees
wander among the corpses.
I might go past
the last resting place
of Sir John Soane
in his stone telephone kiosk,
or the wooden bench
where the Beatles sat
on their "Mad Day Out"
July 28th, 1968.
The body of J.C. Bach,
"The English Bach,"
lies somewhere near here,
lost to the Railway in 1865.
A plaque remembers him
as Queen Charlotte's music tutor,
who collaborated with someone
and died young.
Perhaps Jerry Cruncher got him,
or perhaps he survived
and is strolling with his friend
in the fields beneath.
I drag my feet
through the backsliding seasons
towards a gate in the wall
with its timetable of opening hours.
– Hugo Williams (2014)
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard Portrait of Empress Maria Theresa ca. 1745 pastel on vellum Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of a Magistrate before 1746 oil on canvas Musée des Ursulines de Mâcon |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of Konrad Detlef, Graf von Dehn 1724 oil on canvas Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Jacob Ferdinand Voet Portrait of Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin ca. 1670-80 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Isaac Fuller Self-portrait ca. 1670 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of a Lady ca. 1630-40 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Hans Holbein Portrait of Sir John Godsalve ca. 1532-34 drawing with bodycolour Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Robert Campin Portrait of a Woman ca. 1435 oil and tempera on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Robert Campin Portrait of a Man ca. 1435 oil and tempera on panel National Gallery, London |