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Art historian, arts journalist, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Founder: Everyone's Art. CNN, The Times,The Spectator etc
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'Lighting Up.' Leslie Worth was one of Britain's finest watercolourists. Self-taught he learned by trial and error and by studying the English masters. Rooted largely in the native Romantic and literary traditions, he produced wonderfully quirky pieces of work.

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This image dating from 1911 was taken by Herbert Ponting the official photographer of Captain Scott's expedition to the south pole. It shows dogs resting beneath the Barne Glacier, when hopes were still high for the success of the venture.

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'At the Theatre.' Mid-19thC Paris was the capital of Europe, a place of extremes of wealth and poverty, a city crammed with artists and artisans, with rogues and revolutionaries. The literary chronicler of this was Honoré de Balzac, the man who drew it was Honoré Daumier.

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Stanley Spencer's portrait is of his brother-in-law and war artist Richard Carline. Stan became a great artistic influence on Richard's work and many of the figures and the tonality in his paintings are close in style to Stanley's works of the 1910s and 1920s.

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John Minton's 'Summer Landscape,' sees crescent shapes held in the contours of hills, sea colours in the sky, a near abstract network of fields crisscrossed with tall corn. Near the centre are two figures in characteristic Minton pose – head deep in hand.

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In this 1913 painting Malcolm Drummond depicts an audience seated within a darkened cinema. His subject matter may have been influenced by his one-time tutor Walter Sickert, who also depicted an audience watching a film in 'Gallery of the Old Mogul,' seven years earlier.

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Masterpiece: George Frederic Watts painted 'Hope,' in 1886. The image of a weary, blindfolded figure is easily readable symbolism fit for repurpose. Martin Luther King based a sermon on it and Barack Obama used the painting's inspiration for the manifesto he published in 2006.

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John Craxton's picture suggests the inspiration of Samuel Palmer and William Blake. Craxton drew and painted landscapes which included shepherds or poets as projections of himself. 'They were my means of escape and I identify with a shepherd and poet as a lone figure,' he said.

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Gwen John's 'Girl With a Cat,' is filled with restrained emotion, and has something of the tranquillity of a Vermeer coupled with the intensity of a Rembrandt portrait. It was painted when she was living in Meudon, sleeping in what was virtually a garden shed with her cats.

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Symbolist art seeks to simplify and intensify images. Felix Vallotton's 'A Fine Evening,' uses the starkness of a woodcut engraving to create its abstracted effect. The work is clearly influenced by the Japanese prints that were hugely popular with the French avant-garde.

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