Cornish and portraiture within a far–reaching historically interesting network of art and artists



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Whitley Stokes CSI CIE FBA (28 Feb 1830 April 1909 London). Lawyer & "the greatest of the Celtologists" !👨‍🎓 . Studied Irish, Breton, Cornish texts! Fellow https://t.co/za87HwboDI

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‘Tin Mine Tales’

Mixed media on board.
Double mounted, glazed and framed in hand finished white tulip.
20” x 16”
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어서와 코니시렉스는 처음이지!?😼
Myohan & Cong the Cornish Rex
코니시렉스 묘한&콩이
ⓒ Sugar Cat & Candy Doggie

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‘Before the wind came.’ Gulls gliding and skies without moving swirls. Today, I hope the windy Cornish skies don’t wreak too much havoc. Keep safe and let’s weather the storm wherever you are. Xx

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Creatures of Spriggan (Cornish)
Grotesque looking fae folk said to be ghosts of giants, their small stature betraying their strength. Usually having an unpleasant disposition, they delight in working mischief to any who have offended them. Sometimes confused with dryads.

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Tristan and Isolde is about the illicit love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. Tristan escorts Isolde from Ireland to marry his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. They ingest a love potion on the journey and fall madly in love.

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Here is March pin for our Baukery Pin Club: a frisky joyful Golden Retriever with its beloved crescent-shaped Cornish Pasty! Both from UK 🐶🇬🇧🥟

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In the Cornish tale The Mermaid of Zennor a mysterious lady visits a church where she enchants everyone with her voice. She falls in love with the best singer. They disappear. The lady was a mermaid and it's thought that the couple lived happily ever after.

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This blinder of an Andrew Allanson hardly lasted a heartbeat whither, unsurprisingly. Still more here tho and more on their way:
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This fabulous Clare Bowen of boats in Portscatho Porth hardly lasted 24 hours before selling. Still more here tho:
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Good to be back in the studio today, going in deeper, in response to sketchbook drawings…after revisiting a specific place on the North Cornish Coast.

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A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach (1884-5) by Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947). Plymouth Art Gallery. The work was probably painted on the beach near the old medieval harbour of Newlyn in Cornwall.

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Green fairy clothing: green jackets & "nether garments" are in Cornish lore, while Highland folklore sees "green kilts & conical hats" & says "no woman would be clad in such a colour except a fairy woman" ~ also "green gowns" was a euphemism for fairy folk

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January 27, 2010: J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye", died of natural causes at the age of 91 at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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