National Gallery

The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they...

She also started drawing, despite having no money for paints or canvases, and gained permission to copy at the National Gallery and the British Museum . There, she learned the techniques of oil painting and...

She then attended a number of schools: a boarding establishment at Newbury in Berkshire between 1876 and 1877 (run by the Misses Godwin), a school in Paris from 1880 to 1881 (she was fluent in...

AB was educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich, South London. She embarked on a general BA at King's College, London but found the course boring. At the suggestion of a lunchtime lecturer...

While in Germany, she learned German and developed an appreciation of German arts which informs her later writings. (She also taught herself Russian while living with her sister in the Baltics.) Staying in...

KR was Andrew Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

AG was particularly close to one of her nephews, Hugh Lane , who became a London art dealer. After his death in the sinking of the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, she engaged in delicate...

At twenty-two, NH felt it was time she experienced sex. She selected a most beautiful creature with long green eyes and hands like the Angel in the National Gallery by Filippino Lippi , and with...

BB , on her twenty-fifth birthday, married art historian Michael Levey , who later became Director of the National Gallery and who was knighted in 1981.

In Rome they got to know the painter Charles Eastlake , and through him other artists, such as John Jackson and J. W. M. Turner . MC 's developing interest in the pre-Renaissance art of...

Kemble describes AP in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. She had, however, a strong sense of herself and her opinions, as...

During the 1870s the future LCC developed a passion for art. She went on to become a close associate of some of the most famous artists of the day. Much of her journalistic career drew...

After the war, MS got an editorial job on the Argentor, the quarterly trade magazine of the National Jewellers' Association . The work involved writing, editing, proof-reading, and research on jewellery at the College of Heralds

The Russian journey launched ER 's literary career, through the success of the book she wrote about it. Already an experienced translator, she was encouraged by this success to write essays and reviews for periodicals...

The cover features Uccello 's well-known painting St George and the Dragon, in the National Gallery , subject of Not My Best Side, the poem which remains UAF 's single best-known work. Cover-paintings...