Cão branco

Girl with a White Dog

Lucian Freud

1951–1952

Tate

"The sitter was the artist's first wife Kathleen, daughter of Epstein and Kathleen Garman. She appears in many of his early pictures." daqui

Bay window

"bay window, window formed as the exterior expression of a bay within a structure, a bay in this context being an interior recess made by the outward projection of a wall. The purpose of a bay window is to admit more light than would a window flush with the wall line." daqui

No. 21

David Hepher
1971
Museums Sheffield

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Cabeça de abóbora

"Podia indicar-me um ou dois livros históricos, ingleses e alemães, para que eu não veja tudo do ponto de vista francês? Sinto-me forçado a procurar ajuda nos livros, pois nesta terra de laranjas e limões e de humanos com cabeça de abóbora há muito poucas pessoas com quem se possa discutir assuntos históricos e políticos."

Carta de 8 de Fevereiro de 1855 de D. Pedro V para o Príncipe Alberto

Mónica, Maria Filomena (org.), Correspondência entre D. Pedro V e Seu Tio, o Príncipe Alberto, Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa/Quetzal Editores, 2000, p. 37.

Pedro V

Sir William Ross

1852

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Filho da Puta

Filho da puta

John Frederick Herring I

    "John Frederick Herring (Senior) was a stage-coachman turned animal painter. He drove the High Flyer stagecoach between London and York for four years before devoting himself to painting pictures. For many years he worked in the Doncaster area and painted 33 consecutive winners of the St Leger. He also painted pictures for George IV and Queen Victoria. 

Filho da Puta was the winner of the 1815 St Leger. The horse was owned by Sir William Maxwell and ridden to victory in the race by John Jackson." Daqui

Suicida

Formerly attributed to: Thomas Bewick

Attributed to: Robert Johnson

1788-1805

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Chevalier d'Eon

 Chevalier d'Eon

Thomas Stewart, after Jean-Laurent Mosnier

1792

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    "This painting of the celebrated soldier, diplomat and fencer, Chevalier d’Éon (Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d' Éon de Beaumont) (1728-1810), was an important acquisition for the National Portrait Gallery as it is the earliest representation of a transgender person in the Collection. D’Éon was respected internationally after playing a key role in peace negotiations that ended the Seven Years’ War, and later as a professional fencer, performing for George, Prince of Wales, though always fighting in women’s attire. (...)
    When the portrait was initially offered to the National Portrait Gallery, curators were unaware that it was a contemporary copy of an original portrait painted by French artist, Jean-Laurent Mosnier (1743-1808). This came to light when the owner of the original portrait informed the Gallery of its existence." Daqui

Lytton Strachey por Dora Carrington

 Lytton Strachey

Dora Carrington

1916

"In the First World War, when this portrait was made, he was a conscientious objector." Daqui

Rainha Vitória e John Brown

Sir Edwin Landseer

Queen Victoria at Osborne 

1865-67

    "John Brown was a ghillie (outdoor servant) at Balmoral Castle in Scotland which the Queen and Prince Albert had bought in 1853. After Albert’s death the Queen developed a close relationship with him, and he was extremely protective of her. Shortly after Brown’s death in 1883 the Queen wrote in a letter ‘Perhaps never in history was there so strong and true an attachment, so warm and loving a friendship between the sovereign and servant…Strength of character as well as power of frame – the most fearless uprightness, kindness, sense of justice, honesty, independence and unselfishness combined with a tender, warm heart…the most remarkable of men’." Daqui

Henry Lamb - Rapaz a ler

Boy Reading

Henry Lamb

1956

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