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...Reynolds, didactic champion of idealising portraiture, in Kauffman’s rendering is the reverse: an approachable middle-aged man with receding hairline, questioning expression, at ease among disorganised piles...
...Hals worked into his eighties, fell into obscurity after his death in 1666, then found fame when Theophile Thoré, champion of both the Impressionists and Vermeer, claimed: “Frans Hals, c’est un moderne.”...
...“Despite the decline in 2022, the long-term trend line indicates ransomware is an escalating problem,” Chainalysis’s head of cyber threat intelligence Jackie Koven told me....
...“Our goal is to build a global champion in the alternative investment space.”...
...That was the cruel verdict on Sir John Soane, published anonymously in the journal “The Champion” in 1815....
...It was 2015, and former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari had just guided Hui’s football team, Guangzhou Evergrande, to victory in Asia’s Champions League....
...She’s had several, not least when her husband and champion, fellow artist Victor Willing, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that would finally kill him in 1988....
...His “Florilège des Amours”, an old man’s dream of elastic, interlocking youthful bodies, is also a homage, Lalaurie suggests, to Ronsard as “champion of a still-nascent vernacular in French poetry”....
...In “A Giò Ponti Pilgrimage”, Jackie Daly honours the creative polymath, who is considered the “father of modern Italian design”....
...RM 67-02 Automatic Mutaz Barshim watch, POA My proudest sporting moment to date was winning the double World Champion in Doha, in front of the home crowd....
...In Ireland, the lawmaker Jackie Cahill wants to ban corporates from owning practices....
...Voting has increasingly become a client concern for asset managers, said Jackie Cook, director of investment stewardship research at Morningstar....
...building housing young creatives – a million miles away from the glamour of a fashion house such as Loewe, and yet her name appears on this year’s shortlist for its coveted international craft prize that champions...
...No child could hope to succeed as a ballet dancer — or a champion tennis player or concert pianist, for that matter — without massive parental commitment, but where’s the drama in that?...
...The Japanese coach Asako Takakura said after losing to the Dutch in the last 16 that Japan (world champions in 2011) “must learn from the European clubs”....
...Meanwhile, Netflix has poached BBC executive Jackie Lee-Joe as its new marketing chief....
...“Hope” is a statuesque black woman in a pink shift who has just given birth to a donkey, set against a dark sky with a flying washing machine, while “Conjestina” represents female middleweight champion and...
...There was a chance to see former world champions Sir Jackie Stewart and Nico Rosberg and to test out F1 simulators....
...Stella McCartney Stella McCartney continued to champion environmentally friendly fashion for Spring....
...Jackie Robinson, who famously broke Major League Baseball’s “colour line” in 1947 similarly had played football and basketball for UCLA in the 1930s....
...“They become champions, telling the story and context behind an object.” Are they 21st-century versions of connoisseurs? For the first time, Balshaw looks horrified....
...“Art dealers feel they have to obfuscate the mercantile part of their profession,” Gagosian told Jackie Wullschlager in these pages. “But let’s not kid ourselves. It’s a business.” And so are hotels....
...Jenner champions elemental materials and suggests that instead of mass-produced homewares, it is “better to have a small piece of something fabulous”....
...Publisher John Boydell was a champion; his Shakespeare Gallery, launched in London in 1789, is recreated here in a digital installation, with some of the original editions and prints on display....
...In the pantheon of 20th century American sports, few can be rated in Ali’s league: the boxer Joe Louis, perhaps, certainly Babe Ruth of baseball, possibly Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s colour bar...
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