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...London’s longstanding art schools, including Goldsmiths, the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, are “like nowhere else’s”, says Jacques....
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...My father [Frederick Brill] was an artist called Fred and I would have loved to have a painting he made of Fred the Homepride flour grader, who always wore a little bowler hat....
...Frederick Winslow Taylor is the ghost in the room at debates about new ways of monitoring staff....
...The great arc of Habsburg success begins with Rudolf I of Germany, King of the Romans in the 13th century, then goes imperial with Frederick III, who graduated to Holy Roman Emperor in 1452....
...At that time he wasn’t the only heavy-hitter in this field: Isabel Goldsmith, Andrew Lloyd Webber and American collectors such as Frederick Koch and Christopher Forbes were also players, and prices reflected...
...“It’s at the more boring end,” says Goldsmith, “but hopefully the more profitable....
...The Grand Tour was still in its infancy when Batoni, son of Lucca’s most prominent goldsmith, began in Rome as a painter of altarpieces and canvases on classical themes....
...In his latest novel, The Afghan, Frederick Forsyth creates the figure of Mike Martin, an SAS veteran whose education and looks allow him to infiltrate an Islamist cell planning to commit a worldwide atrocity...
...Goldsmith denied this, saying that the answer was drawn up in his office, without consultation with Downing Street.)...
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