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Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Founder: Everyone's Art. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc
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Peter Doig 'One Hundred Years Ago (Carrera).' The painting was inspired in part by an image on the inside gatefold of the record An Anthology by Duane Allman. The figure in the canoe was based on American bassist Berry Oakley, a founding member of the band.

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This pre-Reformation altar frontal is a rare survival of the type of devotional textiles that were once common in wealthy 16th-century English households. It shows Christ and his 12 Apostles standing under canopies against a velvet background scattered with gold fleur de lys.

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In the winter of 1930-31, while on a lecturing tour of the US, Clare Leighton visited a logging camp in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec owned by the Canadian International Paper Company to observe lumberjacks at work and rest. 'Limbing' is from her 'Lumber Camp Series.'

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'Cutting' Clare Leighton

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Dora Carrington,'The Giantess.' For all their ambitions, the male torchbearers of surrealism were not forward-looking when it came to women & equally promoting their art. Down Below, Carrington's narrative of mental breakdown, is easily as good as Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

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Found this 19thC tile while walking near Long Melford. Medieval architecture appealed to the Victorians who longed for pre-industrial England. Dogs in the Middle Ages herded, hunted & protected. A 9thC prayer says: 'God preserve us from the Northmen & their terrible dogs.'

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Mid 19th century French etching showing a 'convent dog' carrying a small child to sanctuary. Note the boy's costume and ball and chain on the child's arm perhaps denoting he's been rescued from a circus.

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Stanley Spencer's portrait of artist & writer Richard Carline who wrote one of the best biographies on Spencer. He told a story of how ferreting in an incinerator Spencer found ‘a whole bevy of unopened tins of bully beef in good condition’ on which he feasted for a fortnight.

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One of the pictures I've most enjoyed living with has been this painting by Elisabeth Collins titled 'Remembering.' It was part of her show at the late lamented Albemarle Gallery in 1998. It was sold this morning.

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Harry Becker, Landscape with Horses Ploughing. Painted in Wenhaston, Suffolk around 1910, again at Christchurch Mansion. Some of Becker's work is reminiscent of van Gogh and who attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp a year before Becker

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