Behind the Scenes, Below Stairs
Perhaps because I just finished Longbourn and have just started Year of Wonders, servants are on my mind. In the family portrait at left, the servants are visib...
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‘Visual Arts Crush’
I’ve been following the Times’ “Arts Crush” series, and one of the best, and best-written, in the series has been Holland Cotter’s...
Faces from History
Meet Admiral Peter Rainier, painted sometime between 1778 and 1787. The curious thing about Admiral Rainier is that I know someone who looks uncannily like his ...
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