Brunel by John Callcott Horsley, oil on canvas, 1857
More on Brunel and the Mendelssohns (lot more)
Wapping Tunnel
Turner’s ‘Rain Steam and Speed’ 1844. Crossing Brunels’ bridge at MaidenheadPistrucci’s bust of Samuel Cartwright, dentist to Paganini, Brunel, Malibran and many more
Thoughts on dentists and musicians
Landseer depicts Paganini astonishing a London audience in 1832by Alfred Edward Chalon, pen and ink, 1814
Paganini’s annotations of Angelica Catalani’s rendition of part of Pierre Rode’s ‘Air Varie’ (1820) PSS violin
Thoughts on Catalani, the Great Exhibition, and ‘The Singing Mouse’. And dreadful behaviour by Byron
Pierre Rode by Henri GrevedonThe lost portrait of ‘Amico’ – Viotti, by his life-long friend Elizabeth Vigee-le BrunElisabethVigeeLebrun-Self-Portrait-1790Emma Hart (Hamilton) in Naples-“This drawing was made by Madame le-Brun, (1790) with a piece of charcoal from the kitchen, on a door of a room at the Casino of Sir William Hamilton…and removed on orders of the Chevalier who was eager to own and conserve this piece by this lovable and sublime artist.”Lord Nelson-‘Though Shot and Shell’. A treasured gift from Ralph HolmesJoseph HaydnApril 19th 2011. Garten Friedhof, Hannover. The resting place of the great comet chaser, Caroline Herschel, and Charlotte Kestner, Goethe’s orginal ‘Lotte’. Photo. J-P SchulzeMaria Cosway by Julien Fatou, after Richard Cosway9th June-Working on Elliott Schwartz’s ‘The Garden’, from his Concerto: ‘Mr Jefferson’, with Jefferson’s garden records and designsEmma Hamilton by Richard Cosway, pencil and watercolour, circa 1801Frances d’Arblay (‘Fanny Burney’),by Edward Francisco Burney
Thoughts on Charles Burney and Meetings and Seekings (Tartini and more)
Geo. Dance the Younger – Giuseppe Tartini ca. 1764Composer Michael Alec Rose with Dr Johnson (Courtesy of Reynolds!) and Neil Heyde’s head-concert at NPG ‘Only Connect’Fanny Hensel 1842- by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Fanny Hensel – Adagio (Peter Sheppard Skaerved with Aaron Shorr – live performance)
H C Andersen, who met Bull many times, but disapproved of his gamblingT S Eliot, by Patrick HeronPSS with Sir Michael Tippett 1995Wenzel Tornøe (detail) ‘Beethoven spiller for den blinde pige’
NPG 6326,Edward Morgan Forster,by Feliks TopolskiBenjamin Britten by Sarah Fanny Hockey,drawing,circa 1920Howard Skempton performing in the Sculpture Garden of Barbara Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio. May 2003by Dame Barbara Hepworth, self portrait 1950St Ives Summer 2003Priaulx Rainier by Malcolm Lawson 1965Looking at Ben Nicholson in the Courtauld InstituteOpening and dedication of Beethoven’s Sonata orginally dedicated to G A P BridgetowerGeorge_Bridgetower_by_Henry_Edridge_1790Nick and Marius at the Brighton Pavilion,
