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...An enlightening juxtaposition of paintings of Dorelia McNeill, one by John and one by her brother Augustus, reveals that the latter, who became McNeill’s life-long partner, used lush, extravagant strokes...
...“I’ve never seen cracks like this,” said McNeill, “and I’ve been talking about drought stress in UK vineyards for years.”...
...“My dear Leighton,” replied James McNeill Whistler, “why do you ever begin yours?”...
...The audio version, narrated by Cathleen McCarron (who’s previously read books by Val McDermid and Denise Mina), David McCallion, Fiona McNeill and Jeff Harding, works excellently with the book’s episodic...
...The UK arm of Iress teamed up with TBB UK after being connected via Iress board member John Cameron, who founded TBB Australia. Iress in Australia had already recruited two displaced people....
...In the email to employees, sent on Monday morning, Logan Green and John Zimmer, Lyft’s chief executive and president, said the company would not replace Mr McNeill....
...Since the appearance of a whole slew of books on the subject, beginning with Hans Zinsser’s Rats, Lice and History (read at college half a century ago), William McNeill’s Plagues and Peoples and Jared Diamond...
...Then, with the help of supporters overseas and the Australian TV journalist Sophie McNeill, who joined her in a hotel room in the transit zone of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport, she took her story directly...
...In the libel suit he brought in 1878 against John Ruskin, the Victorian painter James McNeill Whistler was asked under cross-examination how he justified charging 200 guineas for a painting of a London firework...
...While at university he met his wife, Teresa McNeill, with whom he had three children....
...Although James Abbott McNeill Whistler created some of the most well known and adventurous paintings of the late 19th century, an illuminating exhibition at Compton Verney in Warwickshire invites us to focus...
...) and his wife, model Jane McNeill....
...John Britton, director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at Nottingham University, wrote in a BMJ editorial: “Although still controversial, there is a growing consensus among UK health organisations...
...One was Alvin Langdon Coburn, an American photographer who moved to Britain and used his camera to emulate painter James McNeill Whistler’s hazy, impressionistic views of the river Thames....
...Occasionally, he relented: John Singer Sargent became a friend (“Claude Monet painting by the Edge of a Wood” is a tribute), Theodore Butler eventually married Monet’s stepdaughter Suzanne, and another American...
...Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake, by Daniel Sutherland, Yale, RRP£25/$40, 432 pages An astonishing 20 years have passed since Richard Dorment and Margaret MacDonald’s exhibition of James McNeill Whistler...
...● Axa Investment Managers has appointed John Porter as global head of fixed income. Mr Porter joins from Barclays where he was global head of portfolio and liquidity management....
...Or perhaps in celebration of a dining room that defined an artistic moment in which James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, Augustus John and Aubrey Beardsley could be found chatting together?...
...The new schools minister, John Nash, is a tough venture capitalist with a zeal for change and no patience for obstacles....
...John McNeill, investment manager at fixed income house Kames, says a spectrum of higher yielding asset classes have appealed, according to each pension fund’s appetite for risk....
...But the sprinkling of household names – John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Frederick Childe Hassam, Thomas Eakins and James McNeill Whistler – were never permanent residents: Florence, as James noted, was...
...Several Sargent stunners congregate as if for a Gilded-Age dinner, along with full-length portraits by Thomas Eakins, James McNeill Whistler, Cecilia Beaux and William Merritt Chase....
...The expeditions will be led by Jim McNeill, a renowned Arctic explorer who has previously worked as a guide and safety consultant for the BBC Natural History Unit....
...Douglas McNeill, analyst at Astaire Securities, said it would be unusual for John Devaney, National Express chairman, to have pressed ahead without their backing....
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