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...“A whole history,” says Cullinan, “that had not been previously put together.”...
...NPG director Nicholas Cullinan on Friday said “Portrait of Mai” was “unique in both British and world culture and yet has never been in a museum collection”....
...HMS Endeavour, captained by James Cook, followed the Dolphin two years later....
...“The provenance of the mine and the key part it played in the Queen’s coronation made for a simple and rather lovely connection,” says James Amos, marketing director at Boodles....
...His favourite “bunny”, or easy victim, was South Africa’s Daryll Cullinan, whom he always welcomed to the wicket with glee....
...Discovered in 1905, the Cullinan remains the biggest what ever found? What’s the nickname of the fictional character created by Leslie Charteris who’s featured in 14 films and two TV series?...
...Nicholas Cullinan, National Portrait Gallery director, said the plan would enable it “to become more welcoming and engaging to all and fulfil our role as the nation’s family album....
...Nicholas Cullinan, director of the gallery, which is a charity, said the building would be “more welcoming, engaging and accessible for all”....
...Nicholas Cullinan, the gallery’s director, said this crowdfunding approach allowed arts institutions to open projects up more widely and remind people of their ultimate public ownership....
...Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, said: “We are delighted to have acquired one of the finest known portraits of Dylan Thomas, representing the Welsh poet at the peak of his literary...
...At the beginning of the 1980s she put together a slideshow of several hundred pictures set to a soundtrack that ran the gamut from James Brown to Bizet, Lotte Lenya to Petula Clark....
...If a woman is ever cast as James Bond, Aston Martin chief executive Andy Palmer once joked, she would surely drive a DBX....
...OC&C was set up in London in 1987 by Chris Outram and Geoff Cullinan, former Booz Allen Hamilton consultants, specialising in consumer goods. Its first client was Coca-Cola Schweppes....
...,” Mr Cullinan said. “Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends” runs from March 23 to June 18 at the National Portrait Gallery, London....
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...the “Courtauld mafia” inhabit the top slots in museums and galleries, including Tate directors Frances Morris and Sir Nicholas Serota; Gabriele Finaldi, director-general of the National Gallery; Nicholas Cullinan...
...Weighing 1,109 carats, the rough diamond is the largest found since 1905, when the Cullinan diamond was mined in South Africa and was later polished into nine pieces for the Crown Jewels worn on ceremonial...
...On the eve of Pakistan’s Independence Day celebrations, Bhutto wrote to James Callaghan, the British prime minister, and demanded the return of the gem....
...had estimated the stone – which is about the size of a tennis ball and was said to have potential to yield a polished diamond of the highest quality weighing hundreds of carats – could reach $70m, writes James...
...The Birmingham-based company, which specialises in pieces made from precious metals, is now run by seventh-generation owners Henry and James Deakin....
...The blue diamond was polished from a 29.6 carat rough diamond found at Petra Diamonds’ Cullinan mine in South Africa, which Petra sold last year for $25.5m....
...To date, the largest diamond ever discovered is the “Cullinan Diamond”, which was dug out of a South African mine in 1905. That 3,106 carat gem was cut and set in Britain’s crown jewels....
...The castles, the crowns, the 3,000-carat Cullinan diamond and much else are held in trust, and cannot be rebalanced into equities....
...The miner is in what it said was a “transitional period” in terms of the ore it was getting from its underground operations at Finsch, and Cullinan, two of its important mines....
...Mr Cullinan is expected to take over in the spring. A British-American citizen, Mr Cullinan was born in New Haven in the US, but grew up in Yorkshire....
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