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First recorded as Dilwihs in a charter signed by Edgar the Peaceful in 967AD, the name derives from the Old English words dile wisc, meaning ‘dill meadow’
The park is at its most beautiful with a colours on every bend of the paths in may 2020. just stunning for a few weeks an explosion of multi colours of this this stunning plant..Rhododendron 'Mrs T. H. Lowinsky
This is a curious painting dated 1560 which I assumed depicted a couple mourning a relative. Called the Judde Memorial, it's actually commemorating a marriage and a reminder to be pious while you can. The verse between them says 'The worde of God hath knit us twayne and Death shall us divide agayne'.
Dulwich Picture Gallery (not Art Gallery) was endowed by Edward Alleyne, Elizabethan actor and theatre impresario. He purchased the manor of Dulwich in 1605 and endowed a college for boys which became Dulwich College. He also bequeathed his collection of paintings to the college, to which other collections were added, chiefly by Sir Francis Bourgeois (1753–1811), and Noël Desenfans (1744–1807). They ran an art dealership in London and in 1790 were commissioned by the king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, to assemble a national collection. This took five years, and unfortunately by 1795 the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth no longer existed, and no funds had been received for the paintings. Bourgeois and Desenfans tried to sell the collection but failed and when Bourgeois inherited it on Desenfans’ death he commissioned Sir John Soane to design a mausoleum at Desenfans' house, but this failed to materialise. Bourgeois then bequeathed his collection to the College of God's Gift (Dulwich) and left instructions for a gallery to be built there. Soane’s gallery opened in 1817.
This is one of the oldest paintings at the gallery: Salvator Mundi, painted in the workshop of Joos van Cleve in the first half of the 16th century. The painting of the face, done with a single-hair brush perhaps, as Lucas Cranach presumably did, is astonishing, as is what I take to be his leather jerkin.
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Dulwich Picture Gallery was endowed by Edward Alleyne, Elizabethan actor and theatre impresario, who bequeathed it his collection of paintings. Other collections were added, chiefly by Sir Francis Bourgeois and Noël Desenfans, who were then commissioned by the king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to assemble a national collection. It took them five years, by which time Poland no longer existed. When Bourgeois died he left instructions for a gallery to be built at Dulwich to house the collection and the gallery opened in 1817.
This is Rembrandt’s Girl at a Window, 1645. It’s not known who she was but legend has it that when Rembrandt put the portrait in his window, passers by thought the girl was there in real life.
Painted only the year before Watteau's ball scene in 1715, this is just a small part of Jan van Huysum's Vase with Flowers. Still-life studies of flowers and fruit in hyper-real detail, were all the rage at the time, and with good reason when you look closely.
Dulwich Park is a 30.85-hectare park in Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark, south London, England. The park was created by the Metropolitan Board of Works from former farmland and meadows. While the initial design was by Charles Barry, it was later refined by Lt Col J. J. Sexby.
6 shot pano merged in LR. A skewed POV gives an unusual perspective.
RAF files processed with Iridient X-Transformer, then in Nik Color Efex Pro after merging.
Dulwich Park is a 30.85-hectare park in Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark, south London, England. The park was created by the Metropolitan Board of Works from former farmland and meadows. While the initial design was by Charles Barry, it was later refined by Lt Col J. J. Sexby
Not painted by Anna Ancher, this landscape was painted in 1903 by a Danish contemporary of hers, Marie Luplau. She was some ten years older and studied at the same private school of art, and was an early feminist. Along with her partner Emilie Mundt, she established a painting school for women and criticised Ancher for not doing more to promote female artists.
College Road, SE21
Entrances - College Gate, College Road, Queen Mary’s Gate & Rosebery Gate. Dulwich Common, Court Lane the light was so beautiful on a saturday walk
Rhododendron myrtifolium..Rhododendron myrtifolium is a species of Rhododendron. It is a broadleaf evergreen shrub common in the high mountain ranges of Eastern Europe and particularly in Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine and Dulwich
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Dulwich Picture Gallery was endowed by Edward Alleyne, Elizabethan actor and theatre impresario, who bequeathed it his collection of paintings. Other collections were added, chiefly by Sir Francis Bourgeois and Noël Desenfans, who were then commissioned by the king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to assemble a national collection. It took them five years, by which time Poland no longer existed. When Bourgeois died he left instructions for a gallery to be built at Dulwich to house the collection and the gallery opened in 1817.
Another Rembrandt, this is a portrait of a young man, possibly his son Titus, painted around 1668 (though Titus died in September of that year). Titus was born in 1641 and became part of the financial struggle between Rembrandt and his wife Saskia, who was daughter of a local mayor. When Titus was 14 and during an outbreak of the Plague, Rembrandt forced him to make a will, naming his father as his sole heir as he himself was constantly in debt. Titus married the daughter of a silversmith in February 1668, but died on 4th September. Six months later, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Titia. She eventually inherited Titus' considerable inheritance of 12,000 guilders.