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...The works of art that changed everything for me were Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies illustrations....
...The pigment’s most famous association is with the Virgin Mary, whose robes were realised in “marian blue”, a variation of ultramarine, during the Middle Ages and Renaissance....
...He was a married artist called Dillwyn “Tim” Parrish, who became her great love. Tim was memorialised in her books — including this one — as “Chexbres”....
...After her divorce from Fisher, she married her lover, the painter Dillwyn Parrish, in 1938, the same year she completed The Theoretical Foot. Parrish died in 1941; he shot himself....
...“For borrowers, these rates are still extremely attractive,” says Randy Parrish, head of US high yield for ING US Investment Management....
...Defra (Anne McIntosh): Nigel Adams, George Eustice, Neil Parrish, Amber Rudd Public administration (Bernard Jenkin): Paul Flynn. Charles Walker. Greg Mulholland....
...Mary Schapiro, the no-nonsense new chairman at the Securities and Exchange Commission, has declared: “It is time for those who buy the municipal securities …to have access to the same quality and quantity...
...Painters such as Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt have become more desirable than ever....
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