Highlights: • Green Park • Palace of Westminster: London SW1A 0AA • Palace of Whitehall (destroyed in 1698) • Royal Society of Arts: 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ • Westminster Bridge Westminster in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Tamise à Westminster c.1871 National…
Opened: 1683 Location: Beaumont Street, Oxford Website: https://www.ashmolean.org/ Collection: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also: • Museums | Oxford (England)
Museums: • Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology: Beaumont Street, Oxford Births: • John, King of England (1166-1216) • Lester, Mark (1958) • Morris, Jane (1839-1914) • Richard I, King of England (1157-1199) Deaths: • Hordern, Michael (1911-1995) • Longdon, Terence (1922-2011) See also: • Cities | England | UK
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (Virgin of the Rocks) c.1491–1499 and 1506–1508 Oil on poplar, thinned and cradled, 189.5 x 120 cm National Gallery, London Full title: The Virgin with the Infant Saint John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child…
(1907–1989) Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM Filmography as Actor: Rebecca 1940 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine That Hamilton Woman 1941 Director: Alexander Korda Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier Spartacus 1960 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Kirk…
(1564–1616) Works: • A Lover’s Complaint (1609) • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-1596) • All’s Well That Ends Well (1604-1605) • Antony and Cleopatra (1606) • As You Like It (1599-1600) • Cardenio (lost) • Coriolanus (1608) • Cymbeline (1610) • Hamlet (1599-1601) • Henry IV, Part 1 (1596-1597) • Henry IV, Part…
Victoria (1819–1901) Queen of the United Kingdom (1837–1901) Empress of India (1876–1901) Edward VII (1841–1910) King of the United Kingdom (1901–1910) Emperor of India (1901–1910) Elizabeth II (1926–2022) Queen of the United Kingdom (1952–2022) See also: • English Monarchs | Monarchs | United Kingdom
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood 1885 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Tate Britain, London Sargent painted two portraits of Claude Monet, one of which, showing the sitter in profile, was exhibited at…
(1856–1925) The artist’s works: Wineglasses probably 1875 National Gallery, London En route pour la pêche 1878 National Gallery of Art, Washington A Street in Venice c.1880–1882 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Fumée d’ambre gris 1880 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Buffalo AKG…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Tamise à Westminster (The Thames at Westminster) c.1871 Oil on canvas, 47 x 73 cm National Gallery, London Monet arrived in London in September 1870, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and stayed until May…