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he secured a lively and expressive rendering of the faces; just the qualities which Mr. David Neave missed, for his success with accessories seems to beguile his brush away from the sitters.
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We cannot leave the exhibition without noting the astonishingly successful treatment of light in the speaking portrait of Madame
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203:(1996), Philip Hoare writes of "...late nineteenth-century enthusiasts of boy-love; writers, artists and Catholic converts inclined to intellectual paedophilia, among them Wilde,
110:(1846–1923) and his wife Jane Maitland Stewart, and the grandson of Robert Johnstone Douglas of Lockerbie, himself the son of Henry Alexander Douglas, a brother of the
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On 19 April 1913, Douglas married
Bettina, the daughter of Harman Grisewood, of
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Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
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In the Australian Bush and on the Coast of the Coral Sea
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Wilde's Devoted Friend: A Life of Robert Ross, 1869-1918
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has given us, nor the poetically suggestive beauty of
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by Sholto Douglas, in which a reminiscence of one of
126:(1844–1900) was famous for the rules of the sport of
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451:reported Douglas's sailing from London for the
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321:Whistler
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