In 1807 during the Peninsular War when Napoleon’s troops invaded Iberia, King João VI of Portugal fled his country taking his entire c...

A to Z Challenge 2020 Things to be Grateful For is for Elephants I love elephants, their shape, their faces and their gene...

A Helensburgh Breakfast Annie Rose Laing came to my attention because of the painting “A Helensburgh Breakfast.” I was born in Hele...

I recently bought a book of old 19th century pictures of Surrey views, collected and printed by Charles W Traylen, a bookseller, who lived a...

In a recent auction, a collection of paintings by Napoleonic prisoner of War, Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857), were sold.  They include...

Both my grandmother and my mother collected postcards of cats painted by Louis Wain. Many of these are of appealing cats with large eye...

I am grateful to Pinterest for introducing me to a man of diverse talents who died in 1956.  Josef Hoffman was born in Moravia in 1870,...