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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of Lord Mordaunt of Turvey ca. 1550 oil on panel Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds |
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| Anonymous British Copyist after Antonis Mor Portrait of Queen Mary I 17th century oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of a Lady ca. 1590 oil on canvas Wokingham Town Hall, Berkshire |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of Sir Thomas Love 1620 oil on canvas National Maritime Museum, London |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Fane ca. 1640 oil on panel Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
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| Anonymous British Artist Postmortem Portrait, reputedly of Lord Charles Cavendish 1670 oil on canvas National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire |
from Funeral Music
Not as we are but as we must appear,
Contractual ghosts of pity; not as we
Desire life but as they would have us live,
Set apart in timeless colloquy.
So it is required; so we bear witness,
Despite ourselves, to what is beyond us,
Each distant sphere of harmony forever
Poised, unanswerable. If it is without
Consequence when we vaunt and suffer, or
If it is not, all echoes are the same
In such eternity. Then tell me, love,
How that should comfort us – or anyone
Dragged half-unnerved out of this worldly place,
Crying to the end 'I have not finished'.
– Geoffrey Hill (1968)
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of Sir David Mitchell ca. 1688-90 oil on canvas National Maritime Museum, London |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of Edward Rice ca. 1705-1715 oil on canvas National Trust, Newton House, Carmarthenshire |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of a Lady 18th century oil on canvas Erewash Borough Council, Derbyshire |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of Sally Booth in the role of Juliet ca. 1820 oil on canvas Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |
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| Anonymous British Artist The Tradesman's Friendly Union 1828 oil on board Compton Verney, Warwickshire |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of George Browne ca. 1842 oil on canvas National Trust, Townend, Windermere, Cumbria |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of W. John Metcalfe, Railway Policeman, Stockton and Darlington Railway 1850 oil on canvas National Railway Museum, York |
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| Anonymous British Artist Trompe l'oeil of China and Glass in a Cabinet early 20th century oil on canvas National Trust, Dorneywood, Buckinghamshire |
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| Anonymous British Artist Rock Garden Scene ca. 1920 oil on canvas Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro |