Goya’s portrait of Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol (c1803/4) is one of my favourites. The image is one of a debonair young man with the artist using flashes of colour to bring excitement to the image. Miserol was a clever man who became an industrialist.

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Goya’s portrait of Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol (c1803/4) is one of my favourites. The image is one of a debonair young man with the artist using flashes of colour to bring excitement to the image. Miserol was a clever man who became an industrialist.

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James Naysmith (1808-1890) made his steam hammers and pile drivers at the Bridgewater Foundry in Manchester. He was first hired by Henry Maudslay after he built a high-pressure steam engine to impress the
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