Tag: London

Palace of Whitehall (London)

Location: City of Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom Built: c.1240 Demolished: 1698 (due to fire) Deaths: • Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland (1491-1547) See also: • Palaces | London (England) | Westminster

Peter O’Toole

(1932–2013) Peter Seamus O’Toole Filmography as Actor: How to Steal a Million 1966 Director: William Wyler Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole     The Lion in Winter 1968 Director: Anthony Harvey Starring: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn     Man of…

Tom Wilkinson

(1948–2023) Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson, OBE Filmography as Actor: Wilde 1997 Director: Brian Gilbert Starring: Stephen Fry, Jude Law     Shakespeare in Love 1998 Director: John Madden Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes     Girl with a Pearl Earring 2003 Director: Peter Webber…

Peter Webber

(1968) Filmography as Director: Girl with a Pearl Earring 2003 Director: Peter Webber Starring: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson   Born 1968 London (England) Occupation Film director

Jean Simmons

(1929–2010) Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE Filmography as Actress: Caesar and Cleopatra 1945 Director: Gabriel Pascal Starring: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains     The Robe 1953 Director: Henry Koster Starring: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons     Désirée 1954 Director: Henry Koster Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons     Spartacus…

Wapping (1860-1864)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 Oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a…

The Lime Burner (1859)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The Lime Burner 1859 Etching and drypoint on laid paper, 25.4 x 17.8 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London During his formative years in Paris in the 1850s, Whistler was influenced by the injunctions of the…