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| Charles de La Fosse Portrait of Jacques Rousseau (painter) ca. 1690 oil on canvas Maidstone Museum, Kent |
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| Daniel Gardner Portrait of Angelica Kauffmann (painter) ca. 1773 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
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| George Hayter Portrait of Antonio Canova (sculptor) 1817 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
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| James Lonsdale Portrait of Joseph Nollekens (sculptor) ca. 1818 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Andrew Geddes Portrait of John Gibson (sculptor) 1830 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Tenuous and Precarious
Tenuous and Precarious
Were my guardians,
Precarious and Tenuous,
Two Romans.
My father was Hazardous,
Hazardous,
Dear old man,
Three Romans.
There was my brother Spurious,
Spurious Posthumous,
Spurious was spurious
Was four Romans.
My husband was Perfidious,
He was perfidious,
Five Romans.
Surreptitious, our son,
Was surreptitious,
He was six Romans.
Our cat Tedious
Still lives,
Count not Tedious
Yet.
My name is Finis,
Finis, Finis,
I am Finis,
Six, five, four, three, two,
One Roman,
Finis.
– Stevie Smith (ca. 1966)
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| Henry Stanier Imaginary Portrait of Benvenuto Cellini (sculptor) 1855 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| Benes Knüpfer Portrait of Arthur Wasse (painter) ca. 1875-80 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of Émile Bernard (painter) 1885 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Harold Gilman Portrait of Spencer Gore (painter) ca. 1906-1907 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Harold Speed Portrait of Lady Diana Bridgeman (painter) ca. 1938 oil on canvas Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Warwickshire |
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| Rodrigo Moynihan Portrait of Victor Pasmore (painter) 1939 oil on canvas Royal College of Art, London |
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| David McClure Portrait of Hamish Reid (painter) 1952 oil on canvas Edinburgh College of Art |
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| Duncan Grant Portrait of Vanessa Bell (painter) ca. 1959 oil on canvas Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
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| Elizabeth Scott-Moore Portrait of Alfred Hayward (painter) ca. 1959-60 oil on canvas Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
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| Sylvia Sleigh The Situation Group 1961 oil on linen National Portrait Gallery, London |