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...The work will be the highlight of Dickinson’s booth dedicated to “artists in Soho”, which will also include work by Thomas Lawrence, Edward Burne-Jones and Frank Auerbach....
...The full look, with the entire bed upholstered in blue silk damask (woven specially by Suffolk company Humphries Weaving), is an astonishing feat of craftsmanship and beauty....
...That was the issue confronting the house museum of one of Britain’s most perennially popular artists, Sir Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88)....
...Her tutors there were Jeffery Camp, Frank Auerbach (“good teachers, both”) and Thomas Monnington, later president of the Royal Academy, who she feels was more interested in Matthew’s work....
...A couple of years later, he got his first job, as assistant to the precocious 20-year-old Humphry Davy at the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol....
...News of the showings coincides with this week’s publication of a comprehensive book, William Turnbull: International Modern Artist (Lund Humphries)....
...Some see him as a mystic visionary; others interpret the Divine Comedy as Thomas Aquinas’s Aristotelian Catholicism put into verse....
...Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy(The Folio Society, £295) Thomas Hardy was a prolific poet who penned almost one thousand poems over the course of his life....
...Early factories were deliberately segregated by sex to limit heterosexual relationships, writes historian Jane Humphries . Until the 1970s, many companies forced women to quit when they married....
...At the other end of the price scale, in the “Collections” section, Oscar Humphries sold wonderful Japanese vases, some starting at a far more accessible £2,500....
...Sir John Meurig Thomas Former Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge Former Director of the Royal Institution...
...Eaton Square was named after Eaton Hall, the Grosvenor country house in Cheshire, and laid out from 1827 to the designs of Thomas Cubitt, a former ship’s carpenter who gathered trades into an early building...
...In their last years together they translated Spinoza, read Thomas Paine and Thomas Hobbes, never ceasing to write and think together, despite domestic tragedy....
...They had not worked out how to isolate the new element, but that problem was quickly solved by the British chemists William Thomas Brande and Sir Humphry Davy, who used electrolysis to extract lithium soon...
...and Thomas Magnussen switching from hack and boffin to an irritating, self-satisfied couple invited to dinner due to a Facebook misunderstanding....
...I particularly enjoyed the way Humphry Davy and his now discredited mentor Thomas Beddoes worked with nitrous oxide or laughing gas — a mind-altering recreational drug and a pioneering anaesthetic — at the...
...succession of hands through which the portrait apparently passed: between different branches of the Austen clan, and then falling out of the family into the possession of the letter’s author, the Reverend Dr Thomas...
...“Given the levels of uncertainty, [Mr Hammond] might be wise to respond cautiously for now,” said Thomas Pope, one of the authors of the IFS report....
...There are appearances from Hollywood actor Alan Cumming in Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, Australian entertainer Barry Humphries, world music star Youssou N’Dour, Scotland’s Mercury Prize winners Young...
...Sir Kenneth Carlisle, who owns the small Wyken Hall estate in Suffolk, hangs a Pelly map alongside a map created by Thomas Warren in 1780. “The estate was mentioned in the Domesday Book,” he says....
...Campbell President, British Pain Society Piers Morgan Chief Executive, C4X Discovery Holdings Brenda Reynolds Chief Executive, Calchan Martin Frost Chief Executive, Cambridge Medical Robotics Emily Humphrys...
...Perhaps the work of Thomas Chippendale (1718-79) featured among them, as the two men certainly collaborated....
...Uncollected Poems, by RS Thomas, Bloodaxe RRP£9.95, 176 pages The centenary of Thomas’s birth affords an opportunity to rediscover one of Wales’s greatest poets....
...Dylan Thomas once told aspiring poets that a “tree is an oak unless it is a pine.” The advice is typical of British authors....
...Given that Jellicoe is often mentioned in the same breath as other celebrated landscape architects such as Lancelot “Capability” Brown, André Le Nôtre and Humphry Repton, this is a great loss....
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