Fascinating lot coming up for auction in Paris: the artist behind this pre-revolutionary lampoon of Necker (probably 1788/89) was Antoine Sergent (1751-1847) - a radical Montagnard in 1792. www.interencheres.com/art-decorati...
En détail : Lot 283ECOLE FRANCAISE du XVIIIe siècle "Necker fait prendre part un homme du Tiers la mesure de nouveaux habits pour la France" Plume et aquarelle Diamètre 7,2cm Annotation en bas « Chez ...
Given the security threat to Europe from the embittered thug in the Kremlin, and while the US might still put the Marmalade Messiah not in jail but in the White House, it is.
If there is such a thing as inverse nominative determinism #JamesCleverly is surely the prime example. Today he's said that during the 2020/22 covid pandemic we mistakenly listened to epidemiologists on...epidemiology. Apparently we should have listened to Bert at the bar of the Dog & Duck.
Reposted for #BlackHistoryMonth. The young black man in this French wash watercolour drawing c.1840 was living in an empire that had not yet fully abolished slavery. That came (notionally, but not everywhere immediately in reality) in 1848, 'the year of revolutions'.
Yes, with a drink problem and possibly an uneasy relationship with his father and with his superiors on the force. Nobody will have done this before.
Thinking of writing a tv drama about a washed-up divorced detective reinvestigating a cold case to help his former DS, being drawn into dark chapters of his own life as well as the case, and finally solving it by noticing some tiny anomaly in the house of a suspect. Absolutely novel idea I think!
The new Owen? Baby face, cod Bennism, student politicics, well heeled middle class?
TV directors - when you do that shot of that vitally important and key to the plot text message or note received by a character in your television drama please FILL THE SCREEN WITH IT SO WE CAN ALL SEE THE BLESSED THING!
ALT: a man in a suit is holding a pair of handcuffs in front of his face .
Does anyone have any idea where this is? It might be a capriccio, an invented landscape, but could it be somewhere you recognise? (Most likely to be in England, certainly in the UK)
