My formative years coincided with the 1970s - no doubt the weirdest decade in human history. The nation’s economy was crumbling. We had blackouts, uncollected trash and silent factories - yet, for all that, we managed to finance and propel Concord into the skies of an indifferent world. In 1977 we had the monarch's Silver …
The young boy standing centre stage in William Frederick Yeames’ iconic painting ‘And When Did you Last See Your Father?’ was modeled on the artist’s young nephew. When it came to depicting the boy’s style of dress, however, it was to one of Thomas Gainsborough’s most famous portraits that Yeames turned for inspiration. 'And When …
When deciding on illustrations for my previous post, ‘The Battle of Riby Gap (1645),’ one of my selections was the well-known painting by William Frederick Yeams, titled ‘And When Did you Last See your Father?’ Had I been restricted to using only one picture in that post, in which I told of a minor civil …
RAVEN MOON 