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...They belonged to a community of Transcendentalists which included the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, naturalist Henry David Thoreau and novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, who lived next door....
...In 1936 two members, Elwin Hawthorne and Walter Steggles, had pictures in the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale....
...Take, for example, this mid 20th-century side table on sale at Hawthorne Antiques — having been stripped back and restored using traditional pigments, it was painted by Hawthorne’s team with ebonised lining...
...“Embroidery is special because it’s freehand, almost like painting with a needle,” says Clare Browne, co-curator of the V&A exhibition....
...Nevertheless, the US has sent all sorts of people overseas, from the author Nathaniel Hawthorne (consul to Liverpool when his college chum Franklin Pierce was president) to the British-born socialite Pamela...
...As well as poems and letters, his publishing venture Wild Hawthorne Press put him at the hub of the burgeoning international movement known as concrete poetry....
...If you could own any painting, what would it be? Rembrandt’s portrait of his son Titus, puzzling over his lessons....
...window by Marc Chagall based on the theme of Psalm 150 “Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord”, a tapestry by John Piper that acts as a reredos to the high altar, and the famous “Noli me tangere” painting...
...The Tudor Investment Corporation’s offices are housed in a stately home in Epsom called Burgh House, which is filled with paintings and prints of animals....
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