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Greenwich Riddle | Dr Geoff Snell
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May 23, 2014. Engraved by John Rogers after George Bryant Campion, pub. 1830. This is a steel-line engraving by John Rogers (c.1800-1882) from an original study by the English watercolour landscape painter George Bryant Campion (1795-1870) – who incidentally was Drawing Master at the Military Academy in nearby Woolwich. I think the engraving was originally produced for the. Series of Kent Views published in London from 1828 to 1831, although it may have also appeared in T. Allen’s. The Country of Kent.
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I now have a Facebook page too. You can find me here. Please like my page to receive regular updates. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Art History and Art News. Welcome to my website. My name is Geoff Snell and I’m an Independent Art Historian. Feel free to rummage. I welcome your feedback. Exhibitions, Museums & Galleries Visited in 2015. The Eastenders that time forgot. On Drawn by Light…back to the Thames. On Shame about the boat race.
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Drawn by Light…back to the Thames | Dr Geoff Snell
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Drawn by Light…back to the Thames. February 5, 2015. Water Fountains at Crystal Palace (c.1852) by Philip Henry Delamotte. Pacific is the only sea god I’ve located. Ganges has made a longer journey, but only as far as Blackheath near Greenwich where he reclines unmolested on an island in an ornamental lake at Brooklands Park – previously part of a private garden. Delamotte’s albumen print of c.1852 clearly shows Father Thames’ original location, taking pride of place among the world’...One thought o...
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Under the Influence | Dr Geoff Snell
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May 30, 2014. Under the Influence: John Deakin and the Lure of Soho, The Photographers’ Gallery until 13 July. John Deakin, contact sheet of self-portraits, for Vogue (1952). He worked for Vogue twice, but on both occasions he was sacked for losing his equipment. He washed up in Soho where he wanted to become a painter, but it was as a street photographer he produced his best work. Portrait of an Unknown Girl in a Café by John Deakin. Lunch at Wheelers by John Deakin (1962). But it was not by chance that...
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February | 2015 | Dr Geoff Snell
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Monthly Archives: February 2015. Exhibitions, Museums & Galleries Visited in 2015. February 9, 2015. Snowdon: A Life in View. Colour, Light, Texture: Portraits by Matthew Smith and Frank Dobson. Henry Tonks: Studies of the Artist. Artists and Sitters: 1960-2000. Face to Face: British Prints from the Clifford Chance Collection. Sir John Soane’s Museum. Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie, and The Advent of Punk. Guy Bourdin: Image Maker. Adventures of the Black Square. Bart Lodewijks: White Li(n)es. 8211; a...
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Exhibitions, Museums & Galleries Visited in 2015 | Dr Geoff Snell
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Exhibitions, Museums & Galleries Visited in 2015. February 9, 2015. Snowdon: A Life in View. Colour, Light, Texture: Portraits by Matthew Smith and Frank Dobson. Henry Tonks: Studies of the Artist. Artists and Sitters: 1960-2000. Face to Face: British Prints from the Clifford Chance Collection. Sir John Soane’s Museum. Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie, and The Advent of Punk. Guy Bourdin: Image Maker. Adventures of the Black Square. Bart Lodewijks: White Li(n)es. David Batchelor: Monochrome Archive.
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BLOG | Dr Geoff Snell
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June 11, 2016. The Illustrated Police News report of the murder of Emily Coombes. As Kate Summerscale makes clear in her book. It may have been a shorthand reference by the illustrator but darker still, if the model ship had actually been there in the room, is it possible the mother had used its symbolic significance to taunt her sons and to threaten them with the kind of maritime future they would be doomed to suffer if they failed to do her bidding? Drawn by Light…back to the Thames. February 5, 2015.
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June | 2014 | Dr Geoff Snell
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Monthly Archives: June 2014. Shame about the boat race. June 11, 2014. Hammersmith Bridge on Boat-race Day (c. 1862) by Walter Greaves. I was surprised to come across this canvas by Walter Greaves in the current Tate Britain exhibition:. Portrait of James McNeill Whistler (undated) by Walter Greaves. Walter Greaves (1917) by William Nicholson. Greaves has been ‘discovered’ on more than one occasion in the past, but his works are often dismissed by critics as poor copies of Whistler’s no...I think I may h...
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ABOUT | Dr Geoff Snell
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May 27, 2014. My specialism is eighteenth-century images of London and the River Thames, although my interest in art history is not confined to this subject. Not by a long chalk. Feel free to comment or to make suggestions. Art History and Art News. Welcome to my website. My name is Geoff Snell and I’m an Independent Art Historian. Feel free to rummage. I welcome your feedback. Exhibitions, Museums & Galleries Visited in 2015. The Eastenders that time forgot. On Drawn by Light…back to the Thames.
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Kent-ish Town | Dr Geoff Snell
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May 26, 2014. An assembly at Wanstead House, William Hogarth, 1728-31. In this painting, Hogarth exaggerates Kent’s interior décor at Wanstead House. The exhibition contains the actual sofa alongside Hogarth’s painting (from the Philadelphia Museum of Art) so you can make your own comparison. The Bad Taste of the Town, William Hogarth, 1724. In an earlier work,. The Bad Taste of the Town. I’ll be discussing William Kent and his enormous influence on John Stanford’s. February 24, 2015 at 10:15 am. Exhibit...
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