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...On August 31, Sotheby’s will unveil the collections of the late Sir Joseph Hotung, who died last year at the age of 91....
...In the 18th century, Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II pioneered an influential rationalist fusion of Enlightenment rule and centralised governance....
...It remained, however, for Napoleon III and the more hawkish of his ministers to be persuaded that open commercial borders would not harm French national interests....
...Joseph Smith, his patron and agent, was an Englishman living in Venice....
...Colnaghi is displaying the lyrical conversation piece, “The Sayer Family of Richmond” (1781), by George III’s favourite painter, Johan Zoffany....
...The fifth in the series, set in Paris, has Bruno up to his neck in the court of Henry III as Catholic extremists under the Duke of Guise plan a coup. Well-crafted, exuberant fare....
...But it’s carnal and satirical and American enough to be heartier than camp — it’s Ivy Compton-Burnett crossed with Mary Karr....
...Both Scott and Macaulay were beneficiaries of a wave of writing that began in the later 18th century by the likes of the costume historian Joseph Strutt and the eccentric vegetarian radical Joseph Ritson...
...From Mr Harold McGraw III and 80 others. Sir, We represent more than 80 international businesses....
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...The prize of £20,000 [worth £2.8m today] encouraged John Harrison of Yorkshire to build a series of singular sea clocks for George II and George III....
...Darling David Dase Olaf Diaz-Pintado Robert Drake-Brockman Alessandro Dusi Edward A. Emerson Antonio F....
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...FT’s Robert Shrimsley writes....
...“The securities laws demand that investors receive more care and candor than Citigroup provided to these CDO investors,” said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement....
...Highlights include a George III paste-set ormolu musical automaton clock (est. £1m-£2m). 19th-Century Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours July 11 Bonhams, London Highlights include works by David Roberts...
...(millions in today’s money), most of her debts being clocked up by creating the royal gardens at Kew; and countless “gardeners”, garden designers in all but name, never made it in quite the same way as Joseph...
...Rockefeller IV Senator Joe Manchin III Senator Herb Kohl Senator Ronald H. Johnson Senator John Barrasso...
...Australia’s Banking Day had the basic numbers overnight on what looks to us like a last-minute climbdown on bank capital: Australian banks are unlikely to face any problems meeting Basel III capital hurdles...
...The costs legitimate businesses are forced to pay are ultimately borne by American consumers nationwide,” said FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III....
...By next weekend he will be back in New York to open an important Robert Rauschenberg show – he represents the artist’s estate....
...Some parts of this narrative are reasonably well known – for example, the work of Robert Hooke in the 17th century and of Boulton & Watt in the 18th century....
...The Red Queen also challenges a long-held historical view – that Richard III murdered the little Princes in the Tower of London in 1483....
...The company gradually added each of the eight-play cycle (from Richard II through to Richard III), culminating in a marathon three-day event, with all eight performed consecutively....
...Colbert, Joseph Prueher, and Charles Rossotti....
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