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...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...However, according to “information held about the communication” at BEIS, the minister explained to the steel baron that “requests would need to be directed through BEIS officials”....
...But Jacob, fourth Baron Rothschild – custodian of the Waddesdon Estate and the man who commissioned the cake – is more exacting....
...It’s an unintentional history of capital, philanthropy and robber barons; it shows you the underworld of America’s elite....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...He was, incidentally, the only British artist ever to have been ennobled, becoming Baron of Stretton. He died the following day, making it the shortest peerage ever....
...Another portrait, from the court of James I, depicts Dudley, 3rd Baron North in an all-black outfit featuring a doublet and breeches that billow out....
...Other pieces owned by Woolf will feature in the V&A show....
...The first Baron Rothschild and John Pierpont Morgan rocked up on their yachts....
...Its inhabitants include dukes, earls, viscounts, barons and other exotica from the aristocracy....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...Melrose Industries, the private equity barons whose equity isn’t private, is leading the FTSE 100 gainers after interims....
...In her 1955 essay on the English aristocracy, Nancy Mitford, the eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, explains the romantic inclinations of the typical English lord: “Kind hearts, in his view, are...
...Fabien Baron Works: 1983-2019 (£150, Phaidon)Billed as part design manual, part manifesto, part eye‑popping skip through a catalogue of beautiful design, this is the first career retrospective of the acclaimed...
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...2018 Touraine £12.50 Wine Cellar Club, Berkshire Bourgeois, Côte de Monts Damnés 2017 Sancerre £310 a dozen Millésima Domaine Denis Jamain, Les Fossiles 2018 Reuilly £14.99 Virgin Wines Domaine du Pré Baron...
...Up for grabs will be a Raja Ravi Varma masterpiece, worth an estimated $1.7m-$2.6m, and a smouldering oil painting by V S Gaitonde, who set a world record for modern Indian art when his 1995, untitled painting...
...Philippe taught Sacha Baron Cohen. He taught Emma Thompson. He taught Roberto Benigni. And he taught me. He tried his best, truly....
...Tulchan Communications has named Andrew Feldman (Baron Feldman of Elstree), former Conservative party chairman, as its new managing partner....
...“They came to Rome and fell in love with the classical world,” he tells me, gesturing at the cast of Canova’s famed sculpture of the “Three Graces”, a version of which, now in the V&A, was commissioned by...
...With a personal stake valued at $35bn, the move would make him one of the world’s richest tech barons....
...was built to impress and intimidate by Francis I, a king whose mother called him “César”, and who was working out his standing not just in relation to his fellow rulers — the Holy Roman emperor Charles V...
...Another recreation will reference Wagner’s arrival in Paris in 1861, as Baron Haussmann was sweeping away the city’s medieval streets in favour of wide boulevards....
...Astor v Vanderbilt: battle of the belles Even prominent society figures of New York’s Gilded Age were not above displays of petty one-upmanship, writes Georgina Varley....
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