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The Sanctuary of Regina Monte Reale Basilica in Vicoforte Mondovi- Cuneo, Italy.
This great building, started in 1596, was completed in 1733.
Here a detail of the facade.
The author and executor of the first part of the project, Ascanio Vitozzi, an architect from Orvieto, Italy, carried out the work in a neoclassical style using sandstone.
View the upper part in brick: www.flickr.com/photos/cienne/242268779/in/set-72157594278...
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey died at Leicester Abbey (the Abbey of St Mary de Pratis) in his late 50s on 29th November 1530. He was on his way from Yorkshire to London with his chaplain, Edmund Bonner (the future Bishop of London), to answer charges of high treason when he was taken ill and died. He was laid to rest within the walls of the abbey and was not given the grand marble black sarcophagus that he had had designed for himself, instead, that sarcophagus houses the body of Horatio Viscount Nelson in the vault under the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral.
Thomas Wolsey was born around 1471 in Ipswich, Suffolk, and was the son of Robert Wolsey, a man once thought to have been a butcher but who is now thought to have been a cloth merchant who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth. Wolsey was educated at Ipswich School, Magdalen College School and then Magdalen College (Oxford University), where he studied theology. On 10th March 1498 Wolsey was ordained and it was not long before he became Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College. In 1502, he became the chaplain of Henry Deane, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and after Deane’s death in 1503 he joined the household of Sir Richard Nanfan. Nanfan died in 1507, leaving Wolsey as the executor of his estate, and it was then that Wolsey began working for the King, Henry VII, as his royal chaplain and the secretary of Richard Foxe, a man who was Lord Privy Seal and the Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham and Winchester.
Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509 and the new king recognised Wolsey’s intelligence and his skills and made him his almoner, a position which gave him a place on the King’s Privy Council. In 1511, Wolsey was made Canon of Windsor then Bishop of Lincoln and, in 1515, Wolsey was appointed Lord Chancellor after William Warham, the Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned. Around the same time, Pope Leo X made him a cardinal.
Wolsey showed Henry VIII just how indispensable he was during the 1512-14 war with France, revealing what a talent he had for foreign diplomacy. The second campaign against the French was successful due to Wolsey’s planning and the subsequent peace negotiations, which saw Mary Tudor marry the French King, Louis XII, were all part of Wolsey’s handiwork. Pope Leo X recognised Wolsey’s skills in this area and made him Papal Legate in 1518, which saw Wolsey negotiating the Treaty of London between twenty nations. In 1520, Wolsey organised a lavish meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I, the French King, at The Field of the Cloth of Gold and very soon he had got England to the enviable position of having the major powers of France and Spain fighting to be England’s ally. He was rewarded by the Pope for his skills and hard work in Europe in 1523 when he was made Bishop of Durham.
Between 1527 and his death in 1530, Cardinal Wolsey was trying his utmost to get his master, King Henry VIII, an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Catherine of Aragon had failed to provide Henry with a living son and heir and Henry stopped sleeping with his wife in 1524 when it appeared that she was no longer fertile. Henry had managed to convince himself that his marriage to Catherine was sinful and cursed because she was his brother’s widow.
Henry wanted his cursed marriage annulled so that he could marry again and hopefully have a son. By 1527, Henry even had another woman in mind, Anne Boleyn.
Annulment proceedings began in 1527 and Wolsey fought the case firstly by pointing out to the Pope that the original dispensation for Henry and Catherine’s marriage was invalid because the marriage was against Biblical law, secondly by claiming that the dispensation contained errors, and thirdly by arguing that the case should be tried in England by him as Papal Legate. Pope Clement VII ruled that the case could be heard in England but in the presence of two legates, Wolsey and Cardinal Campeggio. Although Wolsey was confident that there would be no problem with this, Campeggio’s visit to London kept being delayed, then it was found that Campeggio’s “powers were not complete” which necessitated “further wearisome and unsatisfactory negotiation with the papal Curia.” Campeggio, who had been ordered to stall proceeding as much as possible, managed to stall things until the 31st May 1529 when the trial began at Blackfriars. Catherine was definitely the victor in the trial. Not only did she make the King rather uncomfortable by kneeling at his feet and making the “speech of her life”, the Pope also approved her appeal that the case should only be heard in Rome. In July 1529, Campeggio adjourned the court and the court was never to sit again. Wolsey had failed in his mission.
Henry VIII had been expecting the Legatine Court to rule that his marriage to Catherine was null and void, so it was a bitter disappointment when the court was adjourned and then news reached him that the Pope had approved Catherine’s appeal. However, although many people believe that it was Wolsey’s failure to get the King his divorce which was solely responsible for the Cardinal’s downfall, Eric Ives points out that Wolsey “lost Henry’s confidence from late August onwards by miscalculating the king’s mood and by mishandling the Treaty of Cambrai, in which Francis I totally deceived him and caused him, in turn, to mislead his master.” Wolsey’s mistakes, combined with his failure to get Henry his much-needed annulment, enabled the Boleyn faction to “bring him down”. Wolsey began to fall in favour as the likes of Norfolk, Suffolk and Rochford rose in favour and Wolsey was painted as a man who had not only sought to delay Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn, but also as a man who was “in the pocket of Francis I’s mother and mentor, Louise of Savoy” and so was not working for England’s best interests.
Wolsey was able to see the King sometime around the 19th September 1529 at the King’s hunting lodge at Grafton, near Milton Keynes, where the two of them had lengthy meetings together. We do not know exactly what was said during these meetings but Eric Ives points out that Wolsey managed to retain his office and chair council meetings as late as the 6th October. However, on the 9th October, Wolsey found himself being charged with “praemunire” which is described by Webster’s Dictionary as being “the offense of introducing foreign authority into England”. Around a week later, Wolsey was forced to hand over his seal of office and on the 22nd October 1529 he pleaded guilty to the charge of praemunire and surrendered all of his property to the King. Henry, however, secretly kept in touch with his former chancellor and Wolsey was fully pardoned and restored to Henry’s favour on the 12th February 1530.
Although Wolsey managed to gain much support from the King’s council, he was once again losing favour by autumn 1530, something which Ives puts down to Anne Boleyn.
Although I do not believe that Anne was seeking revenge on the Cardinal for breaking up her relationship with Henry Percy a few years earlier, it is clear that Anne had lost faith in Wolsey and wanted him removed from power.
Wolsey, meanwhile, was digging his own grave by acting against Anne in working towards “a rapprochement with Katherine, Charles V and Rome” which saw a papal edict being sent to Henry in October 1530 ordering him to leave Anne. Anne, of course, was furious and Ives writes of how “she brought out again her wasted youth and the reputation she had risked for Henry” and vowed to leave him. The only way that the King could calm Anne and keep her was by agreeing that he would move against Wolsey.
On the 1st November a groom of the King’s chamber was sent to York, where Wolsey was staying, with a warrant for the Cardinal’s arrest. Henry VIII believed that Wolsey had “intrigued against them, both in and out of his kingdom” and entered into “presumptuous sinister practices made to the court of Rome for reducing him to his former estates and dignity” - treason in other words. On the 4th November, Wolsey was arrested while he was eating dinner and was made to set out for London to be tried for treason. J J Scarisbrick writes of how Wolsey’s natural death at Leicester Abbey on the 29th November 1530 “cheated his master of the final reckoning”, Wolsey had avoided the axeman and died in in a place of God, his true master. His successor, Thomas More, was not so lucky in the eyes of the world. But he was martyred for defending the sanctity of marriage decreed by Rome and is now a Roman Catholic Saint. His last words were " I die the King's good servant. But God's first".
Una de las láminas de la caja.
(Esta en concreto no me gusta mucho, las caras están muy mal dibujadas).
Will of Mary Darby, Widow of Chesterfield, Derby, 1823
Dated 23 August 1823. Executor, Brother-in-law, Thomas Darby, Derby, Tailor.
Beneficiaries: Frances Darby, wife of William Darby of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottingham. Daughters of Thomas Darby, Esther Darby and Mary Darby.
Witnesses: Ann Cooper, Peter Redfern.
James（Jacques Joseph）Tissot（1836 -1902）
Oil on canvas
68 x 92 cm
Signed bottom - left : J.J. Tissot
Provence:
John Polson, of Tranent and Thornly, his executors' sale, Christie's London, 21 July 1911 ; Sir Edward J. Harland, Baroda House, London, his executors' sale, Christie's London, 31 May 1912 ; Ingegnoli Collection, Milan, his executors' sale, Galleria Pesaro Milan, May 1933 ; Private Collection, Milan 2014.
Exhibition :
London, Grosvenor gallery, 1879, number 95 as Rivals, Manchester, Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, 1879, number 355, priced £400 ; Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, La Mostra Nazionale di Pittura, "L'Arte eil convito", 1957, number 188.
Literature :
Athenaeum, 10 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibition", pp. 607-8, 4 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery", p.3 ; Graphic, 10 May 1879. "The Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Galleries" by Tom Taylor, p. 463 ; Manchester Guardian, 3 Sep 1979. " Royal Institution, First Notice" p.5 ; The Spectator, 31 May 1879, p.691 ; The Times, 2 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery", p.3 ; Ugo Ojetti, La Galleria Ingegnoli, Milano（1933）, p.9 and plate 191 ; Willard E. Misfeldt, James Jacques Joseph Tissot : A Bio-Critical Study, PhD dissertation, Washington University, 1971, pp. 162-163, 191 ; Willard E. Misfeldt 1982, Albums, p.52 ; Michael Wentworth, James Tissort, Oxford, 1984, pp. 88, 119, 141, 145-6, 147, 151, 203 and plate 159 ; Christopher Wood, Tissot : The Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot, 18836-1902, Boston, 1986, p.106 ; Margaret Flanders Darby, "The Conservatory in St John's Wood", Seductive Surfaces : The Art of Tissot, dited by Katherine Lochnan, New Haven, 1999, pp. 163, 166, 180-181 and figure 73.
Robilant + Voena
Masterpiece London 2015
Letter sent from Olivia Blomfield widow of William Blomfield to Pomeroy Solicitors, Wymondham, Norfolk dated 26th August 1889. She enclosed a cheque for £200 which she asks to be forwarded to Mr. Blake. She also mentions that she did not think much of Mr. Blake’s letter and that she expects the farm is being farmed the same as when her husband was alive.
William Blomfiled of Sparham Hall Farm, Necton, Norfolk died 18th September 1886. His wife Olivia Jane, nee Whistler, Blomfield remarried in 1890 at the Strand Registration District, London to Edward Lewis.
This grand honeycomb mosaic fronts the entry to a business on W. Northampton St., Wilkes-Barré, PA. Notice the design framing the doorway. The old time executors of such things were really talented!
1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, mortgages and repairs on property
28th March – 15th October 1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will: Giving details of meetings with family and others.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
Draft details of the Income for Mary Ann Morton, widow of Dr. Richard John Morton, Aylsham, Norfolk. Dated April 1904.
Mary Ann (Marion) Magar born circa 1855 the daughter of Maurice Edward Magar and Mary Magar. She married Richard John Morton 5th May 1872 at Holy Trinity, Lambeth.
Richard John Morton born in 1849 the son of Richard Kay, also a Surgeon and Eliza Mary Needham Cook. He married Mary Ann (Marion) Magar 5th May 1872 at Holy Trinity, Lambeth. Richard died 20th October 1902. For up to 4 years after his death payments were still being made and collected by Thomas Purdey, Solicitor executor of Dr. Richard John Morton and his wife and recorded.
The draft Will of November 1885 revised some of the details of this Will. His son James Sparkhall Parker at this time did not own the other Shops named and this draft offers to sell them to James and his brother Leonard. His wife Caroline Parker to be a Executor.
He names his children as James Sparkhall Parker, Caroline Laura Parker, Leonard Samuel Parker,and Jessie Limmer Parker.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
Later documents deal with the Bankruptcy of the Company in the early 1900’s. The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
The rear-most section lifts away, but the rest of the roof sections are supposed to fold open. The ship seats seven troops and 1 commander.
16th June 1894 Letter from Clerical Medical and General Life assurance Society re Policy for the late Jonas Nichols of Preston Bissett, Buckinghamshire.
Jonas Nichols born 1850 at Croughton, Northamptonshire married Elizabeth Warr in 1875 in Buckingham. He died 10th March 1894. He had named his wife Elizabeth as Executrix and sole beneficiary. In the Codicil he names Thomas Herons, Farmer of Hardwick, Oxford as an Executor along with his wife.
Nichols of Preston Bissett, Buckinghamshire Family Papers
Simple equalizer-style background I made, foobar2000 running, Executor launcher open, no need for the Start bar so I use NoBar to kill it. Normally 2680x1050 but it gets horribly shrunk down.
Draft Abstract of Title of Henry Arthur Lucy of 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent to Leasehold premises at 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington under Will of Harriett Jones, 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate, 1905.
Refers to various Indentures giving details of previous owners and terms of Lease. E.g. 19th November 1883 between William Ambrose Tyssen Amerherst, MP of Didlington Hall, Norfolk, Robert Goodall of 1 Evering Road, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, Builder, Harriett Jones wife of William Henry Jones of 30 Huntingdon Street, Kingsland Road, Middlesex, Gas Fitter.
20th January 1898 Will of Harriett Jones residing at the Five Bells Inn, Hoo, Kent. Henry Arthur Lucy, 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, Jeweller’s Assistant named as Executor.
3rd March 1904 Codicil to Will of Harriett confirms Henry Arthur Lucy of 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate as Executor.
8th May 1904 Harriet died at 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate. The 1901 census shows Henry and his wife, Eliza Sophia Jones and children living at 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay. He died in 1908.
Union Trust Building
Grant Avenue @ Market Street
San Francisco
Clinton Day, architect, 1910
An elegant Beaux-Arts building was built in 1910 to house the Union Trust Company, California’s first successful trust institution, whose founder was San Francisco banker Isaias W. Hellman.
Trust companies offered extended bank services by acting as executors, trustees, and transfer agents. In 1923, Union Trust merged with Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank to form Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Company. Wells Fargo & Co., founded in 1852, was a dual business enterprise – a bank, and a nationwide express company that transported money and valuables, sold money orders and traveler’s checks, and transferred funds by telegraph to 10,000 locations across the United States. In 1905, the bank was split off from the express business, and it promptly began a series of mergers and takeovers that culminated in the 1990s and paid off in a big way – Wells Fargo is now one of the four largest banks in the United States.
Wells Fargo still occupies the beautiful Union Trust building today. The Union Trust Building was designed by architect Clinton Day (1846-1916), who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but moved to California with his family when he was eight. His father, Sherman Day, was a state senator and co-founder of the College of California (predecessor of the University of California at Berkeley). Clinton Day’s other projects included UC-Berkeley’s Chemistry Building, Stanford University’s Memorial Chapel, and the Union Life Building. He was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Farrah Leni Fawcett is known as the world's Sexiest Star of all time... she will forever be one of Hollywood's greatest Icons. She was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the younger of two daughters.[3] Her mother, Pauline Alice January 30, 1914 – March 4, 2005), was a homemaker, and her father, James William Fawcett (October 14, 1917 – August 23, 2010), was an oil field contractor. Her sister was Diane Fawcett Walls (October 27, 1938 – October 16, 2001), a graphic artist. She was of Irish, French, English, and Choctaw Native American ancestry. Fawcett once said the name Ferrah was made up by her mother because it went well with their last name.
A Roman Catholic, Fawcett's early education was at the parish school of the church her family attended, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi. She graduated from W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, where she was voted Most Beautiful by her classmates her Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years of High School. For three years, 1965–68, Fawcett attended the University of Texas at Austin, living one semester in Jester Center, and she became a sister of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. During her Freshman year, she was named one of the Ten Most Beautiful Coeds on Campus, the first time a Freshman had been chosen. Their photos were sent to various agencies in Hollywood. David Mirsch, a Hollywood agent called her and urged her to come to Los Angeles. She turned him down but he called her for the next two years. Finally, in 1968, the summer following her junior year, with her parents' permission to try her luck in Hollywood, Farrah moved to Hollywood. She did not return.
Upon arriving in Hollywood in 1968 she was signed to a $350 a week contract with Screen Gems. She began to appear in commercials for UltraBrite toothpaste, Noxema, Max Factor, Wella Balsam shampoo and conditioner, Mercury Cougar automobiles and Beauty Rest matresses. Fawcett's earliest acting appearances were guest spots on The Flying Nun and I Dream of Jeannie. She made numerous other TV appearances including Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, [Mayberry RFD]] and The Partridge Family. She appeared in four episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man with husband Lee Majors, The Dating Game, S.W.A.T and a recurring role on Harry O alongside David Janssen. She also appeared in the Made for TV movies, The Feminist and the Fuzz, The Great American Beauty Contest, The Girl Who Came Giftwrapped, and Murder of Flight 502.
She had a sizable part in the 1969 French romantic-drama, Love Is a Funny Thing. She played opposite Raquel Welch and Mae West in the film version of, Myra Breckinridge (1970). The film earned negative reviews and was a box office flop. However, much has been written and said about the scene where Farrah and Raquel share a bed, and a near sexual experience. Fawcett co-starred with Michael York and Richard Jordan in the well-received science-fiction film, Logan's Run in 1976.
In 1976, Pro Arts Inc., pitched the idea of a poster of Fawcett to her agent, and a photo shoot was arranged with photographer Bruce McBroom, who was hired by the poster company. According to friend Nels Van Patten, Fawcett styled her own hair and did her make-up without the aid of a mirror. Her blonde highlights were further heightened by a squeeze of lemon juice. From 40 rolls of film, Fawcett herself selected her six favorite pictures, eventually narrowing her choice to the one that made her famous. The resulting poster, of Fawcett in a one-piece red bathing suit, was a best-seller; sales estimates ranged from over 5 million[12] to 8 million to as high as 12 million copies.
On March 21, 1976, the first appearance of Fawcett playing the character Jill Munroe in Charlie's Angels was aired as a movie of the week. Fawcett and her husband were frequent tennis partners of producer Aaron Spelling, and he and his producing partner thought of casting Fawcett as the golden girl Jill because of his friendship with the couple. The movie starred Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors) as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective agency run by a reclusive multi-millionaire whom the women had never met. Voiced by John Forsythe, the Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via a speakerphone to his core team of three female employees, whom he referred to as Angels. They were aided in the office and occasionally in the field by two male associates, played by character actors David Doyle and David Ogden Stiers. The program quickly earned a huge following, leading the network to air it a second time and approve production for a series, with the pilot's principal cast except David Ogden Stiers.
Fawcett's record-breaking poster that sold 12 million copies.
The Charlie's Angels series formally debuted on September 22, 1976. Fawcett emerged as a fan favorite in the show, and the actress won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Performer in a New TV Program. In a 1977 interview with TV Guide, Fawcett said: When the show was number three, I thought it was our acting. When we got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra.
Fawcett's appearance in the television show boosted sales of her poster, and she earned far more in royalties from poster sales than from her salary for appearing in Charlie's Angels. Her hairstyle went on to become an international trend, with women sporting a Farrah-do a Farrah-flip, or simply Farrah hair Iterations of her hair style predominated American women's hair styles well into the 1980s.
Fawcett left Charlie's Angels after only one season and Cheryl Ladd replaced her on the show, portraying Jill Munroe's younger sister Kris Munroe. Numerous explanations for Fawcett's precipitous withdrawal from the show were offered over the years. The strain on her marriage due to her long absences most days due to filming, as her then-husband Lee Majors was star of an established television show himself, was frequently cited, but Fawcett's ambitions to broaden her acting abilities with opportunities in films have also been given. Fawcett never officially signed her series contract with Spelling due to protracted negotiations over royalties from her image's use in peripheral products, which led to an even more protracted lawsuit filed by Spelling and his company when she quit the show.
The show was a major success throughout the world, maintaining its appeal in syndication, spawning a cottage industry of peripheral products, particularly in the show's first three seasons, including several series of bubble gum cards, two sets of fashion dolls, numerous posters, puzzles, and school supplies, novelizations of episodes, toy vans, and a board game, all featuring Fawcett's likeness. The Angels also appeared on the covers of magazines around the world, from countless fan magazines to TV Guide (four times) to Time Magazine.
The series ultimately ran for five seasons. As part of a settlement to a lawsuit over her early departure, Fawcett returned for six guest appearances over seasons three and four of the series.
In 2004, the television movie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels dramatized the events from the show with supermodel and actress Tricia Helfer portraying Fawcett and Ben Browder portraying Lee Majors, Fawcett's then-husband.
In 1983, Fawcett won critical acclaim for her role in the Off-Broadway stage production of the controversial play Extremities, written by William Mastrosimone. Replacing Susan Sarandon, she was a would-be rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker. She described the role as the most grueling, the most intense, the most physically demanding and emotionally exhausting of her career. During one performance, a stalker in the audience disrupted the show by asking Fawcett if she had received the photos and letters he had mailed her. Police removed the man and were able only to issue a summons for disorderly conduct.
The following year, her role as a battered wife in the fact-based television movie The Burning Bed (1984) earned her the first of her four Emmy Award nominations. The project is noted as being the first television movie to provide a nationwide 800 number that offered help for others in the situation, in this case victims of domestic abuse. It was the highest-rated television movie of the season.
In 1986, Fawcett appeared in the movie version of Extremities, which was also well received by critics, and for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
She appeared in Jon Avnet's Between Two Women with Colleen Dewhurst, and took several more dramatic roles as infamous or renowned women. She was nominated for Golden Globe awards for roles as Beate Klarsfeld in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story and troubled Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, and won a CableACE Award for her 1989 portrayal of groundbreaking LIFE magazine photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White. Her 1989 portrayal of convicted murderer Diane Downs in the miniseries Small Sacrifices earned her a second Emmy nomination[20] and her sixth Golden Globe Award nomination. The miniseries won a Peabody Award for excellence in television, with Fawcett's performance singled out by the organization, which stated Ms. Fawcett brings a sense of realism rarely seen in television miniseries (to) a drama of unusual power Art meets life.
Fawcett, who had steadfastly resisted appearing nude in magazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s (although she appeared topless in the 1980 film Saturn 3), caused a major stir by posing semi-nude in the December 1995 issue of Playboy.[citation needed] At the age of 50, she returned to Playboy with a pictorial for the July 1997 issue, which also became a top seller. The issue and its accompanying video featured Fawcett painting on canvas using her body, which had been an ambition of hers for years.
That same year, Fawcett was chosen by Robert Duvall to play his wife in an independent feature film he was producing, The Apostle. Fawcett received an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Actress for the film, which was highly critically acclaimed.
In 2000, she worked with director Robert Altman and an all-star cast in the feature film Dr. T the Women, playing the wife of Richard Gere (her character has a mental breakdown, leading to her first fully nude appearance). Also that year, Fawcett's collaboration with sculptor Keith Edmier was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, later traveling to The Andy Warhol Museum. The sculpture was also presented in a series of photographs and a book by Rizzoli.
In November 2003, Fawcett prepared for her return to Broadway in a production of Bobbi Boland, the tragicomic tale of a former Miss Florida. However, the show never officially opened, closing before preview performances. Fawcett was described as vibrating with frustration at the producer's extraordinary decision to cancel the production. Only days earlier the same producer closed an Off-Broadway show she had been backing.
Fawcett continued to work in television, with well-regarded appearances in made-for-television movies and on popular television series including Ally McBeal and four episodes each of Spin City and The Guardian, her work on the latter show earning her a third Emmy nomination in 2004.
Fawcett was married to Lee Majors, star of television's The Six Million Dollar Man, from 1973 to 1982, although the couple separated in 1979. During her marriage, she was known and credited in her roles as Farrah Fawcett-Majors.
From 1979 until 1997 Fawcett was involved romantically with actor Ryan O'Neal. The relationship produced a son, Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal, born January 30, 1985 in Los Angeles.[26] In April 2009, on probation for driving under the influence, Redmond was arrested for possession of narcotics while Fawcett was in the hospital.[citation needed] On June 22, 2009, The Los Angeles Times and Reuters reported that Ryan O'Neal had said that Fawcett had agreed to marry him as soon as she felt strong enough.
From 1997 to 1998, Fawcett had a relationship with Canadian filmmaker James Orr, writer and producer of the Disney feature film in which she co-starred with Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Man of the House. The relationship ended when Orr was charged with and later convicted of beating Fawcett during a 1998 fight between the two.
On June 5, 1997, Fawcett received negative commentary after giving a rambling interview and appearing distracted on Late Show with David Letterman. Months later, she told the host of The Howard Stern Show her behavior was just her way of joking around with the television host, partly in the guise of promoting her Playboy pictoral and video, explaining what appeared to be random looks across the theater was just her looking and reacting to fans in the audience. Though the Letterman appearance spawned speculation and several jokes at her expense, she returned to the show a week later, with success, and several years later, after Joaquin Phoenix's mumbling act on a February 2009 appearance on The Late Show, Letterman wrapped up the interview by saying, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight and recalled Fawcett's earlier appearance by noting we owe an apology to Farrah Fawcett.
Fawcett's elder sister, Diane Fawcett Walls, died from lung cancer just before her 63rd birthday, on October 16, 2001.[33] The fifth episode of her 2005 Chasing Farrah series followed the actress home to Texas to visit with her father, James, and mother, Pauline. Pauline Fawcett died soon after, on March 4, 2005, at the age of 91.
Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, and began treatment, including chemotherapy and surgery. Four months later, on her 60th birthday, the Associated Press wire service reported that Fawcett was, at that point, cancer free.
Less than four months later, in May 2007, Fawcett brought a small digital video camera to document a doctor's office visit. There, she was told a malignant polyp was found where she had been treated for the initial cancer. Doctors contemplated whether to implant a radiation seeder (which differs from conventional radiation and is used to treat other types of cancer). Fawcett's U.S. doctors told her that she would require a colostomy. Instead, Fawcett traveled to Germany for treatments described variously in the press as holistic aggressive and alternative. There, Dr. Ursula Jacob prescribed a treatment including surgery to remove the anal tumor, and a course of perfusion and embolization for her liver cancer by Doctors Claus Kiehling and Thomas Vogl in Germany, and chemotherapy back in Fawcett's home town of Los Angeles. Although initially the tumors were regressing, their reappearance a few months later necessitated a new course, this time including laser ablation therapy and chemoembolization. Aided by friend Alana Stewart, Fawcett documented her battle with the disease.
In early April 2009, Fawcett, back in the United States, was hospitalized, with media reports declaring her unconscious and in critical condition, although subsequent reports indicated her condition was not so dire. On April 6, the Associated Press reported that her cancer had metastasized to her liver, a development Fawcett had learned of in May 2007 and which her subsequent treatments in Germany had targeted. The report denied that she was unconscious, and explained that the hospitalization was due not to her cancer but a painful abdominal hematoma that had been the result of a minor procedure. Her spokesperson emphasized she was not at death's door adding - She remains in good spirits with her usual sense of humor ... She's been in great shape her whole life and has an incredible resolve and an incredible resilience. Fawcett was released from the hospital on April 9, picked up by longtime companion O'Neal, and, according to her doctor, was walking and in great spirits and looking forward to celebrating Easter at home.
A month later, on May 7, Fawcett was reported as critically ill, with Ryan O'Neal quoted as saying she now spends her days at home, on an IV, often asleep. The Los Angeles Times reported Fawcett was in the last stages of her cancer and had the chance to see her son Redmond in April 2009, although shackled and under supervision, as he was then incarcerated. Her 91-year-old father, James Fawcett, flew out to Los Angeles to visit.
The cancer specialist that was treating Fawcett in L.A., Dr. Lawrence Piro, and Fawcett's friend and Angels co-star Kate Jackson – a breast cancer survivor – appeared together on The Today Show dispelling tabloid-fueled rumors, including suggestions Fawcett had ever been in a coma, had ever reached 86 pounds, and had ever given up her fight against the disease or lost the will to live. Jackson decried such fabrications, saying they really do hurt a human being and a person like Farrah. Piro recalled when it became necessary for Fawcett to undergo treatments that would cause her to lose her hair, acknowledging Farrah probably has the most famous hair in the world but also that it is not a trivial matter for any cancer patient, whose hair affects [one's] whole sense of who [they] are. Of the documentary, Jackson averred Fawcett didn't do this to show that 'she' is unique, she did it to show that we are all unique ... This was ... meant to be a gift to others to help and inspire them.
The two-hour documentary Farrah's Story, which was filmed by Fawcett and friend Alana Stewart, aired on NBC on May 15, 2009.[47] The documentary was watched by nearly nine million people at its premiere airing, and it was re-aired on the broadcast network's cable stations MSNBC, Bravo and Oxygen. Fawcett earned her fourth Emmy nomination posthumously on July 16, 2009, as producer of Farrah's Story.
Controversy surrounded the aired version of the documentary, with her initial producing partner, who had worked with her four years earlier on her reality series Chasing Farrah, alleging O'Neal's and Stewart's editing of the program was not in keeping with Fawcett's wishes to more thoroughly explore rare types of cancers such as her own and alternative methods of treatment. He was especially critical of scenes showing Fawcett's son visiting her for the last time, in shackles, while she was nearly unconscious in bed. Fawcett had generally kept her son out of the media, and his appearances were minimal in Chasing Farrah.
Fawcett died at approximately 9:28 am, PDT on June 25, 2009, in the intensive care unit of Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, with O'Neal and Stewart by her side. A private funeral was held in Los Angeles on June 30. Fawcett's son Redmond was permitted to leave his California detention center to attend his mother's funeral, where he gave the first reading.
The night of her death, ABC aired an hour-long special episode of 20/20 featuring clips from several of Barbara Walters' past interviews with Fawcett as well as new interviews with Ryan O'Neal, Jaclyn Smith, Alana Stewart, and Dr. Lawrence Piro. Walters followed up on the story on Friday's episode of 20/20. CNN's Larry King Live planned a show exclusively about Fawcett that evening until the death of Michael Jackson several hours later caused the program to shift to cover both stories. Cher, a longtime friend of Fawcett, and Suzanne de Passe, executive producer of Fawcett's Small Sacrifices mini-series, both paid tribute to Fawcett on the program. NBC aired a Dateline NBC special Farrah Fawcett: The Life and Death of an Angel; the following evening, June 26, preceded by a rebroadcast of Farrah's Story in prime time. That weekend and the following week, television tributes continued. MSNBC aired back-to-back episodes of its Headliners and Legends episodes featuring Fawcett and Jackson. TV Land aired a mini-marathon of Charlie's Angels and Chasing Farrah episodes. E! aired Michael and Farrah: Lost Icons and the The Biography Channel aired Bio Remembers: Farrah Fawcett. The documentary Farrah's Story re-aired on the Oxygen Network and MSNBC.
Larry King said of the Fawcett phenomenon,
TV had much more impact back in the '70s than it does today. Charlie's Angels got huge numbers every week – nothing really dominates the television landscape like that today. Maybe American Idol comes close, but now there are so many channels and so many more shows it's hard for anything to get the audience, or amount of attention, that Charlie's Angels got. Farrah was a major TV star when the medium was clearly dominant.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said Farrah was one of the iconic beauties of our time. Her girl-next-door charm combined with stunning looks made her a star on film, TV and the printed page.
Kate Jackson said,
She was a selfless person who loved her family and friends with all her heart, and what a big heart it was. Farrah showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness and was an inspiration to those around her... I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile...when you think of Farrah, remember her smiling because that is exactly how she wanted to be remembered: smiling.
She is buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
The red one-piece bathing suit worn by Farrah in her famous 1976 poster was donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH) on February 2, 2011.[65] Said to have been purchased at a Saks Fifth Avenue store, the red Lycra suit made by the leading Australian swimsuit company Speedo, was donated to the Smithsonian by her executors and was formally presented to NMAH in Washington D.C. by her longtime companion Ryan O'Neal.[66] The suit and the poster are expected to go on temporary display sometime in 2011–12. They will be made additions to the Smithsonian's popular culture department.
The famous poster of Farrah in a red swimsuit has been produced as a Barbie doll. The limited edition dolls, complete with a gold chain and the girl-next-door locks, have been snapped up by Barbie fans.
In 2011, Men's Health named her one of the 100 Hottest Women of All-Time ranking her at No. 31
DIGITAL BUILD (not tested IRL)
This thing is like 10 ft wide. Built to scale with my Executor class and a number of my other ships.
I streamed almost the whole process on Twitch and will upload the vods to my YouTube. Built entirely within the month of September 2024.
Width: 362.2 Studs (114.1 In or 289.7 Cm)
Length: 81 Studs (25.5 In or 64.8 Cm)
Height: 23.3 Studs (7.3 In or 18.6 Cm)
Weight: 634.9 Oz or 17,998.6 G
Partscount: 21,259
Time Streamed: 107h:27m:20s+
yeah, i know had a lot running when i took this pic =P
Shell: emergeDesktop
VS: Lumen Blue by ~pddeluxe
WP: wallbase.cc/index.php/wallpaper/index/628119
Rainmeter: CountDownLua, VISILLO, and everything else is made by me.
Not Shown: Executor
Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.
This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.
Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation
detail of the top of the monument
I have always had a strange relationship with the Dragoon, taking me a decade to realise what a Dragoon actually was.
The colourway you are looking at is easily attributed to the Solarite Dragoon Suit used by Executor Talandar/Fenix. The simplistic and compact nature of this build leaves very little room for details, something I probably would go back to work on in the future.
Extract of Title to 31, 33, 35, 37 Brunswick Street & 5, 6 Union Street & Union Cottage, Ramsgate, Kent, under the Will of James Frost, deceased. Dated 1905.
4th April 1885 Indre between Ellen Clay of 2 St. Mildreds Villas. St. Mildreds Road, Ramsgate and William Alexander Hubbard of Ramsgate. Reciting that George Clay, formerly of Goodge Street, Middlesex, Publican by his Will of 4th June 1849 left all his land etc upon Trust to the use of John Godden and George Clay.
Should either of them wish to sell they would need the consent in writing of Ann Clay, his wife and his daughters Ellen Clay, Annie Clay and Isabel Clay.
George Clay died 12th August 1849. His son George Clay died 2nd March 1861. John Godden died and his Will was dated 12th October 1874. William Atkins and John Edward Whitworth named as beneficiaries of the Trust, Executors named as William Atkins and John P. W. Goddon.
Further details are given about whom the Trust passed to and changes of Trustees, also of the deaths of Ann Clay, 11th July 1860, Isabwlla Clay 14th November 1864, Annie Clay 1st November 1882. 29th October 1904 James Frost died.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published on behalf of the Carisbrooke Castle Museum Trust by W. J. Nigh & Sons Ltd. of Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Carisbrooke Castle
Carisbrooke Castle is one of a number of paintings that were previously in the collection of B. G. Windus, and acquired for the Nation through the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (of inheritance tax) scheme.
Turner's view of Carisbrooke Castle was allocated to the Carisbrooke Castle Museum on the Isle of Wight in 2007, and was the first work by Turner to enter a public collection on the island.
Turner's watercolour of the gatehouse to Carisbrooke Castle was painted in 1828 for the series of Picturesque Views in England and Wales, a collaborative project with the printmaker Charles Heath, who produced 96 of Turner’s engravings between 1827 and 1838. This work is regarded as one of the finest in the series.
It captures the picturesque qualities of Carisbrooke, with Turner’s trademark use of the effects of light casting a diagonal shaft of sunshine on the castle’s imposing entrance, set off by stormy clouds overhead.
Turner visited the Isle of Wight at least twice. In the summer of 1827 he stayed with the architect, John Nash, at East Cowes Castle which may be when he made the sketches for this painting.
East Cowes Castle, a Gothic Revival mansion, was Nash's home from its completion until his death in 1835. Nash himself designed the building which was built between 1798 and 1800. The castle was said to have been built at unlimited expense. The house was demolished in 1960, and most of the parkland was covered by a housing estate, although the Ice House and Lodge remain.
Carisbrooke Castle featured in a local exhibition in 2013 where John Medland noted that:
"His 1828 watercolour, Carisbrooke Castle,
illustrated his developing obsession with
light and the drama of the natural world.
The castle shines like yellowed ivory as
a vibrant purple sky threatens Newport."
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, who was born in 1775, and known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.
He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
William left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Turner was born in Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family. He retained his lower class accent, while assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame.
A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman.
William earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which he often only begrudgingly accepted owing to his troubled and contrary nature.
He opened his own gallery in 1804, and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828. He travelled around Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
Intensely private, eccentric, and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Evelina (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843), by the widow Sarah Danby.
William became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father in 1829. When his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified.
In 1841, Turner rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as present at any property in that year's census.
William lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
-- J. M. W. Turner - The Early Years
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden on the 23rd. April 1775, and baptised on the 14th. May 1775.
His father William Turner (1745 - 1829) was a barber and wig maker who had moved to london around 1770 from South Molton, Devon.
William's mother, Mary Marshall, came from a family of butchers. A younger sister, Mary Ann, was born in September 1778, but died in August 1783.
Turner's mother showed signs of mental disturbance from 1785, and was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in Old Street in 1799. She was moved in 1800 to Bethlem Hospital, a mental asylum, where she died in 1804.
Turner was sent to his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, a butcher in Brentford, which was then a village on the banks of the River Thames west of London, where Turner attended school.
The earliest known artistic exercise by Turner is from this period - a series of simple colourings of engraved plates from Henry Boswell's Picturesque View of the Antiquities of England and Wales.
Around 1786, Turner was sent to Margate on the Kent coast. There he produced a series of drawings of the town and surrounding area that foreshadowed his later work.
By this time, Turner's drawings were being exhibited in his father's shop window and sold for a few shillings. His father boasted to the artist Thomas Stothard that:
"My son, sir, is going to be a painter."
In 1789, Turner again stayed with his uncle who had retired to Sunningwell (now part of Oxfordshire). A whole sketchbook of work from this time in Berkshire survives, as well as a watercolour of Oxford.
The use of pencil sketches on location, as the foundation for later finished paintings, formed the basis of Turner's essential working style for his whole career.
Many early sketches by Turner were architectural studies or exercises in perspective, and it is known that, as a young man, he worked for several architects, including Thomas Hardwick, James Wyatt and Joseph Bonomi the Elder.
By the end of 1789, he had also begun to study under the topographical draughtsman Thomas Malton, who specialised in London views. Turner learned from him the basic tricks of the trade, copying and colouring outline prints of British castles and abbeys.
He later called Malton:
"My real master".
Topography at the time was a thriving industry by which a young artist could pay for his studies.
-- J. M. W. Turner's Career
Turner entered the Royal Academy of Art in 1789, and was accepted into the academy a year later by Sir Joshua Reynolds. He showed an early interest in architecture, but was advised by Hardwick to focus on painting.
William's first watercolour, A View of the Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth, was accepted for the Royal Academy summer exhibition of 1790 when Turner was 15.
As an academy probationer, Turner was taught drawing from plaster casts of antique sculptures. From July 1790 to October 1793, his name appears in the registry of the academy over a hundred times.
In June 1792, he was admitted to the life class to learn to draw the human body from nude models.
Turner exhibited watercolours each year at the academy while painting in the winter and travelling in the summer widely throughout Britain, particularly to Wales, where he produced a wide range of sketches for working up into studies and watercolours.
These particularly focused on architectural work, which used his skills as a draughtsman. In 1793, he showed the watercolour titled The Rising Squall – Hot Wells from St. Vincent's Rock Bristol (now lost), which foreshadowed his later climatic effects.
The British writer Peter Cunningham, in his obituary of Turner, wrote that:
"It is recognised by the wiser few as a
noble attempt at lifting landscape art
out of the tame insipidities ... and
evinced for the first time that mastery
of effect for which he is now justly
celebrated".
In 1796, Turner exhibited Fishermen at Sea, his first oil painting for the academy, of a nocturnal moonlit scene of the Needles off the Isle of Wight, an image of boats in peril.
Wilton said that:
"The image is a summary of all that had
been said about the sea by the artists of
the 18th. century".
The work in fact shows the influence of artists such as Claude Joseph Vernet, Philip James de Loutherbourg, Peter Monamy and Francis Swaine, who was admired for his moonlight marine paintings.
The image was praised by contemporary critics, and founded Turner's reputation as both an oil painter and a painter of maritime scenes.
Turner travelled widely in Europe, starting with France and Switzerland in 1802, and studying in the Louvre in Paris in the same year. He also made many visits to Venice.
Important support for his work came from Walter Ramsden Fawkes of Farnley Hall, near Otley in Yorkshire, who became a close friend of the artist. Turner first visited Otley in 1797, aged 22, when commissioned to paint watercolours of the area.
William was so attracted to Otley and the surrounding area that he returned to it throughout his career. The stormy backdrop of Hannibal Crossing The Alps is reputed to have been inspired by a storm over the Chevin in Otley while he was staying at Farnley Hall.
Turner was also a frequent guest of George Wyndham, 3rd. Earl of Egremont, at Petworth House in West Sussex, and painted scenes that Egremont funded taken from the grounds of the house and of the Sussex countryside, including a view of the Chichester Canal. Petworth House still displays a number of Turner's paintings.
-- J. M. W. Turner - The Later Years
As Turner grew older, he became more eccentric. He had few close friends except for his father, who lived with him for 30 years, and worked as his studio assistant. His father's death in 1829 had a profound effect on him, and thereafter he was subject to bouts of depression.
William never married, but had a relationship with an older widow, his housekeeper Sarah Danby. He is believed to have been the father of her two daughters Evelina Dupuis and Georgiana Thompson.
Turner formed a relationship with Sophia Caroline Booth after her second husband died, and from 1846 he lived with her as "Mr Booth" or "Admiral Booth" in her house at 6 Davis's Place (now Cheyne Walk) in Chelsea, until his death.
Turner was a habitual user of snuff; in 1838, Louis Philippe I, King of the French, presented a gold snuff box to him. Of two other snuffboxes, an agate and silver example bears Turner's name, and another, made of wood, was collected along with his spectacles, magnifying glass and card case by an associate housekeeper.
Turner formed a short but intense friendship with the artist Edward Thomas Daniell. The painter David Roberts wrote of Daniell that:
"He adored Turner, when I and others doubted,
and taught me to see and to distinguish his
beauties over that of others ... the old man really
had a fond and personal regard for this young
clergyman, which I doubt he ever evinced for
the other".
Daniell may have supplied Turner with the spiritual comfort he needed after the deaths of his father and friends, and to "ease the fears of a naturally reflective man approaching old age".
After Daniell's death in Lycia at the age of 38, he told Roberts that he would never form such a friendship again.
Before leaving for the Middle East, Daniell commissioned Turner’s portrait from John Linnell. Turner had previously refused to sit for the artist, and it was difficult to get his agreement to be portrayed. Daniell positioned the two men opposite each other at dinner, so that Linnell could observe his subject carefully and portray his likeness from memory.
-- The Death of J. M. W. Turner
Turner died of cholera at the home of Sophia Caroline Booth, in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, on the 19th. December 1851. He was 76 years of age when he died. William was laid to rest in St. Paul's Cathedral, where he lies near the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. Apparently his last words were "The Sun (or Son?) is God", though this may be apocryphal.
Turner's friend, the architect Philip Hardwick, the son of his old tutor, was in charge of making the funeral arrangements, and wrote to those who knew Turner to tell them at the time of his death that:
"I must inform you,
we have lost him."
Other executors were his cousin and chief mourner at the funeral, Henry Harpur IV (benefactor of Westminster – now Chelsea & Westminster – Hospital), Revd. Henry Scott Trimmer, George Jones RA and Charles Turner ARA.
-- J. M. W. Turner's Art
Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterized by a chromatic palette, and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint.
According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles".
Turner was recognised as an artistic genius; the English art critic John Ruskin described him as:
"The artist who could most stirringly and
truthfully measure the moods of Nature".
Turner's imagination was sparked by shipwrecks, fires (including the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner witnessed first-hand, and transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog.
He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen at the 1840 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, where The Slave Ship (1840), and Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water (1840) were first shown.
A 2003 exhibition at the Clark Art Institute suggested that these two paintings were pendants, due in part to their similar content and size. (In art, a pendant is one of two paintings, statues, reliefs or other type of work of art intended as a pair. Typically, pendants are related thematically to each other, and are displayed in close proximity. For example, pairs of portraits of married couples are very common, as are symmetrically arranged statues flanking an altar.)
Turner's work however drew criticism from some contemporaries. An anonymous review of the 1840 Royal Academy exhibition, later identified as John Eagles, called the displayed paintings:
"Absurd extravagances that
disgrace the Exhibition”.
Sir George Beaumont, a landscape painter and fellow member of the Royal Academy, described Turner's paintings as "blots".
Turner's major venture into printmaking was the Liber Studiorum (Book of Studies), comprising seventy prints that he worked on from 1806 to 1819. The Liber Studiorum was an expression of his intentions for landscape art.
The idea was loosely based on Claude Lorrain's Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), where Claude had recorded his completed paintings; a series of print copies of these drawings, by then at Devonshire House, had been a huge publishing success.
Turner's plates were meant to be widely disseminated, and categorised the genre into six types: Marine, Mountainous, Pastoral, Historical, Architectural, and Elevated or Epic Pastoral.
William's printmaking was a major part of his output, and a museum is devoted to it, the Turner Museum in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1974 by Douglass Montrose-Graem to house his collection of Turner prints.
Turner's early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stay true to the traditions of English landscape. In Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature has already come into play.
His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects.
In Turner's later years, he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by the use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognisable.
The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting but exerted an influence on art in France; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.
William is also generally regarded as a precursor of abstract painting.
High levels of volcanic ash (from the eruption of Mount Tambora) in the atmosphere during 1816, the "Year Without a Summer", led to unusually spectacular sunsets during this period, and were an inspiration for some of Turner's work.
John Ruskin said that an early patron, Thomas Monro, Principal Physician of Bedlam, and a collector and amateur artist, was a significant influence on Turner's style:
"His true master was Dr. Monro; to the practical
teaching of that first patron and the wise simplicity
of method of watercolour study, in which he was
disciplined by him and companioned by his friend
Girtin, the healthy and constant development of
the greater power is primarily to be attributed;
the greatness of the power itself, it is impossible
to over-estimate."
Together with a number of young artists, Turner was able, in Monro's London house, to copy works of the major topographical draughtsmen of his time and perfect his skills in drawing.
However the curious atmospherical effects and illusions of John Robert Cozens's watercolours, some of which were present in Monro's house, went far further than the neat renderings of topography. The solemn grandeur of his Alpine views were an early revelation to the young Turner, and showed him the true potential of the watercolour medium, conveying mood instead of information.
-- J. M. W. Turner's Use of Materials
Turner experimented with a wide variety of pigments. He used formulations like carmine, despite knowing that they were not long-lasting, and against the advice of contemporary experts to use more durable pigments.
As a result, many of his colours have now faded. Ruskin complained at how quickly his work decayed; Turner was indifferent to posterity, and chose materials that looked good when freshly applied. By 1930, there was concern that both his oils and his watercolours were fading.
-- The Legacy of J. M. W. Turner
Turner left a small fortune, which he hoped would be used to support what he called "decayed artists". He planned an almshouse at Twickenham in west London with a gallery for some of his works.
His will was contested and in 1856, after a court battle, his first cousins, including Thomas Price Turner, received part of his fortune. Another portion went to the Royal Academy of Arts, which occasionally awards students the Turner Medal.
William's finished paintings were bequeathed to the British nation, and he intended that a special gallery would be built to house them. This did not happen because there was disagreement over the final site.
Twenty-two years after his death, the British Parliament passed an act allowing his paintings to be lent to museums outside London, and so began the process of scattering the pictures which Turner had wanted to be kept together.
One of the greatest collectors of his work was Henry Vaughan, who when he died in 1899 owned more than one hundred watercolours and drawings by Turner, and as many prints.
His collection included examples of almost every type of work on paper that the artist produced, from early topographical drawings and atmospheric landscape watercolours, to brilliant colour studies, literary vignette illustrations and spectacular exhibition pieces.
It included nearly a hundred proofs of Liber Studiorum and twenty-three drawings connected with it. It was an unparalleled collection that comprehensively represented the diversity, imagination and technical inventiveness of Turner's work throughout his sixty-year career.
Vaughan bequeathed the most of his Turner collection to British and Irish public galleries and museums, stipulating that the collections of Turner's watercolours should be 'exhibited to the public all at one time, free of charge and only in January', demonstrating an awareness of conservation which was unusual at the time.
In 1910, the main part of the Turner Bequest, which includes unfinished paintings and drawings, was re-housed in the Duveen Turner Wing at the National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Britain).
In 1987, a new wing at the Tate, the Clore Gallery, was opened to house the Turner bequest, though some of the most important paintings remain in the National Gallery in contravention of Turner's condition that they be kept and shown together.
Increasingly paintings are lent abroad, ignoring Turner's provision that they remain constantly and permanently in Turner's Gallery.
St. Mary's Church, Battersea, added a commemorative stained glass window for Turner, between 1976 and 1982. St Paul's Cathedral, Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria & Albert Museum all hold statues representing him.
A portrait by Cornelius Varley with his patent graphic telescope (Sheffield Museums & Galleries) was compared with his death mask (National Portrait Gallery, London) by Kelly Freeman at Dundee University 2009–10 to ascertain whether it really depicts Turner.
The City of Westminster unveiled a memorial plaque at the site of his birthplace at 21 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, on the 2nd. June 1999.
Selby Whittingham founded The Turner Society at London and Manchester in 1975. After the society endorsed the Tate Gallery's Clore Gallery wing (on the lines of the Duveen wing of 1910), as the solution to the controversy of what should be done with the Turner Bequest, Selby Whittingham resigned and founded the Independent Turner Society.
The Tate created the prestigious annual Turner Prize art award in 1984, named in Turner's honour, and 20 years later the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours founded the Winsor & Newton Turner Watercolour Award.
A major exhibition, "Turner's Britain", with material (including The Fighting Temeraire) on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from the 7th. November 2003 to the 8th. February 2004.
In 2005, Turner's The Fighting Temeraire was voted Britain's "greatest painting" in a public poll organised by the BBC.
-- Portrayal of J. M. W. Turner in the Media
Leo McKern played Turner in The Sun Is God, a Thames Television production directed by Michael Darlow. The programme aired on the 17th. December 1974, during the Turner Bicentenary Exhibition in London.
British filmmaker Mike Leigh wrote and directed Mr. Turner, a biopic of Turner's later years, released in 2014. The film stars Timothy Spall as Turner, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey and Paul Jesson, and premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, with Spall taking the award for Best Actor.
The Bank of England announced that a portrait of Turner, with a backdrop of The Fighting Temeraire, would appear on the £20 note beginning in 2020. It is the first £20 British banknote printed on polymer. It came into circulation on Thursday the 20th. February 2020.
Thomas and Edward Hodkinson first appear in the trade directory for 1867 at Parkfield Works, Park St, Stoke. The next year only Edward is namedas proprietor. The last entry is in 1879 when the brickworks is being run by his executors.
A friend to Hawaiian royalty, Alexander J. Cartwright Jr., the inventor of modern day baseball, served as an advisor for King Kalakaua and Queen Emma Rooke Kamehameha and an executee and trustee of royal wills for the latter and Princess Likelike.
After Emma's death in 1887, Cartwright had E. P. Adams & Co. auction her land in multiple Hawaiian islands.
After Likelike died, Cartwright filed her will in the Supreme Court. Her possessions included $15,000 worth of real estate and $5,000 worth of personal property. Per Likelike's will, her daughter Princess Kaiulani inherited a share.
“Executor’s and trustee’s sale! By order of Alexander J. Cartwright Jr., the executor and trustee of the last will of Emma Kaleleonalani, deceased, we will sell at public auction on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 10 a.m., at the late residence, corner of Nuuanu and Beretania Sts., the following property:
4 mamo feather leis
3 ee feather leis
9 pue feather leis
21 pauka feather leis
6 wili feather leis
1 elegant etagere
1 bust, ‘Queen Victoria’
An assortment of jewelry!”
Queen Emma Rooke Kamehameha’s Auction
The Daily bulletin, October 9, 1886, Image 2
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Bill for attendance and Medicine by Dr. George Ritchie of William Blackbourn deceased dated 7 October 1862.
Dr. George Ritchie born circa 1814 at Banffshire, Scotland lived at Billinghay, Lincoln with his wife Elizabeth Ann Green born circa 1840.
William Blackburn, Farmer, North Kyme, Lincolnshire died 16 Aug 1862. The Bill was paid by his brother Samuel Blackbourn Executor of the Will.
The home of William Shakespeare's daughter Susanna following her marriage in 1607 to the successful local doctor, John Hall. In due course Susanna & John Hall became joint executors of Shakespeare's will.
In 1774, Mrs. Sarah Bernard, widow of the Rev. Thomas Bernard, by will, directed her executors to cut down all the timber in Halsted Grove, and with the proceeds thereof to erect a School and Almshouses, containing five tenements for 5 poor widows or single women, and 1 for housing a school mistress. She also left 120 acres of land (now let for £86 a year,) in trust to apply the rents yearly as follows, viz. :-£4 each to Great Bardfield and Wimbish parishes, for schooling poor children, and the remainder for the support of the above named School and Almshouses. This charity is almost entirely under the control of the Rector, who has increased the number of almswomen, allowing 2 to live in some of the tenements. The schoolmistress teaches 24 free scholars (boys and girls,) and is allowed c £20 a year. The poor parishioners have a yearly rent-charge of 30s.,
Jones' West Monmouthshire Grammar School for Boys was opened in 1898 from a legacy left by the Haberdasher William Jones on land craftily donated by Squire Hanbury to win over the executors who were looking for a site for a new school. The school was run by the Haberdashers, the school badge being their crest, until 1954 when it was taken over by Monmouthshire County Council as a Grammar School under the 1944 Education Act. In 1958, boarding ceased at the school ending the distinction between "boarders" and "day boys". In 1980 the school became a comprehensive, shed the school badge and tie link to the Haberdashers, and, shock horror, became co-ed!
This prospectus for potential boarders probably dates from the 1930s, the Headmaster Ivor Jones serving as Headmaster at the school from 1912-1942.
The school was remarkable when opened in 1898 in having a swimming pool. When I was there in the 1960s, initially swimming was done nude after a boy drowned in the pool in 1947 after his trunks got caught in a grid at the bottom. Unbelievably, the pool has, I am told, been converted into an art gallery. In the 1960s the gym looked unchanged from this photograph.
20th February 1903 – 27th March 1903, details of the meetings re Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
4th October – 9th December 1902 details of the meetings re the renunciation of Leonard S Parker and James Parker as Trustee of their father Samuel Parker’s Will due to Bankruptcy.
Leonard and James Parker were the son’s of Samuel Parker and Caroline Sparkhall. Along with their mother Caroline and sisters Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker inherited under the Will with Property held in Trust.
The daughter Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.
This was a unique dance. It is called "Henry" and is about the 6 wives of King Henry VIII (It has executors, guillotines and everything!)
concept and photographer by bali pro wedding photographer team:
More portfolio at Wide Photography's Site and the story of their wedding here
executor by Delont
Draft Will of Samuel Caswell of the Limes Crescent Road, Ramsgate, Kent dated 25th August 1888.
Executors: Daughters Florence Mary Caswell and Emma Elizabeth Caswell, Henry Hinds.
Beneficiaries: Sister, Mary Caswell, niece Mary Jane Harding, daughters Florence Mary Caswell, Emma Elizabeth Caswell.
Edward Wotton, Solicitor.
Property left in Will: 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43 Clifton Cottages, Clifton Gardens, Margate. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Addington Square, Margate. 1 & 2 Clevenden Villas, Crescent Road, Ramsgate. 1, St. Mildred’s Road, St. Lawrence. 11 Augusta Road, Ramsgate, 11 Augusta Road, Ramsgate and four Cottages in rear of Lion Place, known as the Grundies Cottages, Ramsgate. 27 and 34 Effingham Street, Ramsgate.
Instruction and details of the Will of Samuel Parker, Grocer, Draper and Tailor of Wymondham, Norforlk, dated 7th November 1885. His business was carried out at Browick, Wymondham and all Businesses carried out in the name of Parker and Sons also belong to him. He has no shares in the Fancy Boot and Shoe Business in the names of Parker and sons or as Parker’s Fancy Stores except as a Creditor, they belong to his son James.
He names his wife, Caroline Parker and Solicitor Edward Boyce Pomeroy of Wymondham as Executors. He names his children as James Sparkhall Parker (also to be a Trustee), Caroline Laura Parker, Leonard Samuel Parker (also a Trustee and named Leonard James Parker elsewhere in the document) and Jessie Limmer Parker.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
It was another trip to Bath today, for Mike & Dave to set up the executors' account. It was pretty straightforward, thankfully. Pam & I did more sorting out at the house, then we all went home, as we had meetings to attend.
On our way home, we called in at Gardiner Haskins to get some plasticised fabric for the kitchen table, and I re-covered the stool to match. I used my glue gun to stick the fabric to the stool pad, at the edges, which worked really well - once I'd worked out I had to do it a bit at a time, or the glue set too quickly!
This evening we had a meeting at Fairford about the Speed Watch scheme. There wasn't really much progress to report from the organiser, so it was a bit frustrating. It was good to get home and into the warm again - another chilly night outside.
Indenture dated 19th February 1907 for sale of 1 York Street, Ramsgate, Kent under Will of James Mercer Edwards by Executors Anne Mary Edwards, Widow, of Ramsgate, Gilbert Edwards Bryant, of the Royal Artillery Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire, Thomas Newman, Solicitor’s Clerk of Ramsgate, Kent and The Ramsgate Cinque Ports and County Permanent Building Society.
Quotes Indenture dated 5th August 1877 whereby James Barber Edwards of Deal sold the premises to James Mercer Edwards of Ramsgate. James Mercer Edwards made his Will dated 30th August 1894 he gave all his real estate to his Wife Anne Mary Edwards and his Son-in-law Captain Gilbert Edwards Bryant and his Clerk Thomas Newman in Trust to be sold. All three were named as Trustees. He died 3rd March 1896.