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| William Dobson Portrait of Sir Richard Fanshawe 1644 oil on canvas Valence House Museum, London |
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| François de Troy Portrait of Queen Mary of Modena 1698 oil on canvas National Trust, Sizergh Castle, Cumbria |
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| attributed to Jean-Baptiste Van Loo Portrait of the actress Margaret 'Peg' Woffington ca. 1738 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Pompeo Batoni Portrait of Lord Archibald Hamilton ca. 1755-65 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Joseph Wright of Derby Portrait of William Pigot ca. 1760 oil on canvas Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| William Bell Scott Girl in a Blue Dress ca. 1870 oil on canvas Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| Harrington Mann Portrait of Ian Couper Nairn 1899 oil on canvas Kircaldy Galleries, Fife, Scotland |
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| James Bell Anderson Blue Gown 1924 oil on canvas Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland |
My Blue Shirt
hangs in the closet
of this small room, collar open,
sleeves empty, tail wrinkled.
Nothing fills the shirt but air
and my faint scent. It waits,
all seven buttons undone,
button holes slack,
the soft fabric with its square white pattern,
all of it waiting for a body.
It would take any body, though it knows,
in its shirt way of knowing, only mine,
has my shape in its wrinkles,
my bend in the elbows.
Outside this room birds hunt for food,
young leaves drink in morning sunlight,
people pass on their way to breakfast.
Yet here, in this closet,
the blue shirt needs nothing,
expects nothing, knows only its shirt knowledge,
that I am now learning – how to be private and patient,
how to be unbuttoned,
how to carry the scent of what has worn me,
and to know myself by the wrinkles.
– Gary Whited (2013)
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| Thomas Cooper Gotch The Madonna of the Mount 1926 oil on canvas Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering, Northamptonshire |
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| Edwin Smith Olive Cook Painting 1953 oil on board Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex |
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| S.I. Veale Portrait of Phyllis Williamson ca. 1955 oil on canvas Dover Collections, Kent |
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| Kenneth Cozens Mrs M. Harrison 1960 oil on canvas Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art |
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| Alberto Morrocco Principal Adam Neville 1986 oil on canvas University of Dundee, Scotland |
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| Sarup Singh Queen Elizabeth II 1986 acrylic on canvas Leicester Town Hall |
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| Lucy Jones Self Portrait 1991 oil on canvas Usher Gallery, Lincoln |