Portrait of Thomas Hope in Turkish Costume by Henry Bone after the portrait of 1798 by William Beechey. Pera Museum Thomas Hope (1769–1831), was a merchant banker, author, philosopher and art collector of Dutch...
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Preserved 9.2 inch gun - Vic Jeffery Rottnest Island is one of Australia's smallest inhabited islands - it is 11 kilometres long and 4.5 kilometres at its widest point. The island is twenty kilometres off the coast...
READ MORE »Market Cross, Beverley, East Yorkshire
I am frequently asked for advice on the redecoration of historic structures. This may be by local authorities, heritage bodies or residents concerned at intended development in the area. In this case I was asked...
READ MORE »Hartlepool War Memorial
The memorial was designed by Philip B. Bennison in 1921 for the civilians and servicemen killed in World War One. It has a raked, stepped plinth to a square, coursed, rockfaced pedestal with ashlar quoins at the...
READ MORE »Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede
The Air Forces Memorial, or Runnymede Memorial, near Egham, Surrey, England is a memorial dedicated to some 20,456 men and women from the British Empire who were lost in operations from World War II. The memorial...
READ MORE »Brizlee Tower, Alnwick
An ornamental tower, dated 1781, and thought to have been designed by Robert Adam for the first Duke of Northumberland, although it is also attributed to the duke himself. It is in an elaborate Gothick style and was...
READ MORE »The Cenotaph
The Cenotaph was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, in the years 1919-20. The railings were made a few years later and are erected around the memorial each Remembrance Sunday. I was commissioned to...
READ MORE »David Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare
The renowned actor-manager, David Garrick, built the Temple to celebrate the genius of William Shakespeare, commissioning the sculptor Roubiliac to provide a life-size statue of his hero to be placed inside. The...
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