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Curling Tongs

Metal curling tongs belonging to Warwickshire sculptor Alma Ramsey. The ends of the tongs would have been heated on a fire or other source of heat. A strand of hair was then wrapped around them and held ...

Dick and Puffin

Nancy Youngman (born 1906) Dick and Puffin, 1931 Oil on board 615mm x 500mm A portrait of Dick Hosking holding Puffin, the cat. Nan (Nancy) Youngman was at the Slade in the late 1920's and became a lifelong ...

Mrs Priscilla Kemble

Bertie Greatheed (The Younger) (1781-1804) Mrs Priscilla Kemble Oil on canvas 741mm x 615mm A portrait of Mrs John Kemble, nee Priscilla Hopkins, wearing a turban. Priscilla Hopkins (1756-1845) acted ...

Portrait Of A Young Man

William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881-1941) Portrait Of A Young Man Watercolour on card 405mm x 350mm Portrait of a young man with short brown hair. According to a letter from the donor the man is an actor ...

Portrait of Thomas Baker

A photograph of a painting by Octavius Oakley of the Leamington Spa artist, Thomas Baker. The portrait was painted in 1841, when the two artists met for the first time. The original painting is in the ...

Portrait of Violet Haswell

A postcard bearing a black and white photographic portrait of the artist Violet Haswell. She is sitting on a wall outside a residence, holding a gardening fork.

Rosalind Iden

Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1894-1973) Rosalind Iden, 1946 Oil on canvas 340mm x 240mm Portrait of a woman with blonde hair wearing a blue blouse, her eyes appear to be shut. She is the actress Rosalind Iden ...

Self Portrait

Dick Hosking Self Portrait c.1925-7 Oil on canvas The husband of sculptor Alma Ramsey, Dick Hosking was the principal of Coventry art college from 1948 until 1964.

Self Portrait

Philip Sutton Self Portrait Oil on canvas 505mm x 505mm The image consists of a brilliantly coloured self portrait. The artist depicted himself wearing a hat against a dark background. Philip Sutton studied ...

Sonia Alomis

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) Sonia Alomis Ink on paper 135mm x 90mm This etching depicts the actress, Sonia Alomis. The inscription on the left reads 'Sonia / Alomis / In The Dybark / The Greatest ...

Template For My Future Plastic Surgery

Marc Quinn (b.1964) Template For My Future Plastic Surgery, 2002 Photographic print 1590mm x 500mm In this work, Quinn explores the relationship between physical appearance and the inner self. This work ...

Untitled

Anthony van Dyck (after) (1599-1641) Untitled, 1621 - 1700 Oil on canvas 1130mm x 860mm A contemporary copy of a self portrait by Sir Anthony Van Dyke, painted c.1621, which is now in the Hermitage Museum. ...

William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - List of Actors, p.A6r.

Shakespeare’s fellow actors. The company of actors known as the King’s Men, who first performed Shakespeare’s plays, had their names listed in the ‘First Folio’. Among ...

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