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Storytime
Rachel Whiteread (1963 - )
Frances Anne Crewe (neé Greville), Lady Crewe (1748-1818) as St. Genevieve
Thomas Watson ( - 1781)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
The Angels of Boulogne
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Sixth-Form Bench, Eton
Percival Skelton
Buckingham Palace from St. James’s Park
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)
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Trafalgar Square
Evelyn Abelson (1886 - 1967)
The Encampment in Hyde Park, 1780
Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809)
Infantry Brigade Signal Office, Flanders HQ
Francis Patrick Martin (1883 - 1966)
Royal Institution, Albemarle Street
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
A Studious Sailor
Roger K Furse (1903 - 1972)
Exhibition of Water Coloured Drawings, Old Bond Street
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Le Billet Doux
Nicolas Lavreince (1737 - 1807)
Nicolas Delaunay (1739 - 1792)
The Chapel Royal, Hampton Court
James Digman Wingfield (1800 - 1872)
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Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876) judge
Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793 - 1872)
Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887)
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809)
John, I Murphy (c1748 - )
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Guard Relaxing, the Stables, Wynnstay
Patrick Gierth
Society of Agriculture
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
The Public Schools, & Part of Exeter College Library, from the Garden
John Hill (1770 - 1850)
Frederick Nash (1782 - 1856)
The Encampment in Hyde Park, 1780
Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809)
Board of Trade
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Thomas Sunderland (1744 - 1828)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Buckingham Palace from St. James’s Park
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)
Buckingham Palace from St. James’s Park
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)
Rain, Shuttlecock and Stolen Kisses
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Exhibition of Water Coloured Drawings, Old Bond Street
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
On the Way
Hubert Andrew Freeth (1912 - 1986)
Society of Agriculture
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Osborne in 1865
John Alfred Vinter (c1828 - 1905)
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802 - 1873)
La Toilette
Nicholas Joseph Voyez (1742 - 1806)
Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
A Sheet of Figure Studies
George Jones (1786 - 1869)
The Duke of Wellington’s Library, Study and Sleeping Apartment, at Walmer Castle, and the Room in which he died, 14 September 1852, Aged 84 Years
Thomas Henry Ellis (1814 - 1886)
Frederick Shephard
Woman’s Sphere (“Echo” after John Gilbert)
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
9: Louis
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
Ladies in a Country House Garden
John Melchior Barralet
The Upper Room of the Gibraltar Garrison Library
Thomas Coleman Dibdin (1810 - 1893)
J M Carter
Le Hamac
James Joseph Jacques Tissot (1836 - 1902)
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Life at the Seaside, Ramsgate 1854
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899)
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Mrs Maria Anne Fitzherbert (1756-1837) Famous Beauty
Richard Cosway (1742 - 1821)
Jean Condé (1765 - 1794)
Interior of the Royal Exchange
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815)
Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812)
John Chapman
Find a Pussy Lose a Head
Bob Bain (1949 - 1989)
The Geisha Girl
Ikeda Eisen (1790 - 1848)
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Life at the Sea-Side, Ramsgate
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899)
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Mrs. Fontana reading Bernard Shaw
Carel Weight (1908 - 1997)
Life at the Sea-Side (Ramsgate Sands)
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899)
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Untitled (25)
Adrian Wiszniewski (1958 - )
Life at the Sea-Side (Ramsgate Sands)
Charles William Sharpe (1818 - 1899)
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
The Greenhouse
John Minton (1917 - 1957)
Maria Anne Fitzherbert (1756-1837) famous beauty; morganatic wife of George IV
Richard, (After) Cosway
Military College, Chelsea
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Thomas Sutherland (1785 - 1838)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
The Radcliffe Library
John Bluck
Frederick Mackenzie (1787 - 1854)
Books I’ll Never Read Twice
Richard Galpin (1975 - )
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