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Silver Favourites (c.1903)

Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Silver Favourites c.1903 Oil on panel, 110 X 71 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester The verse on the frame is from Wordsworth‘s poem ‘Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase’. See also: • Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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Cleopatra at Philae (c.1855-1912)

Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Cleopatra at Philae c.1855–1912 Oil on canvas, 152.8 × 107.3 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Unfinished oil painting entitled ‘Cleopatra at Philae’ at the Temple of Isis. (V&A) See also: • Cleopatra (69-30 BC) | Philae (Egypt)

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

(1836–1912) Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA The artist’s works: Mary Magdalene 1854 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Cleopatra at Philae c.1855–1912 Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Education of the Children of Clovis 1861 Private collection An Egyptian in a Doorway 1865 Metropolitan Museum of…

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Abraham dismissing Hagar and Ishmael (1640)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Abraham dismissing Hagar and Ishmael 1640 Oil on oak panel, 39 × 53.2 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London CAI.78 is signed and dated Rembrandt f. 1640, and was generally accepted as an autograph work until 1973. However, the earliest…

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