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    Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet GCVO, PRA (20 March 1836 – 26 July 1919) was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President...
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    British artist Edward Poynter, depicting three nude sirens or nymphs from Greek mythology that lure sailors to their deaths. Poynter painted two versions...
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    president of the Royal Academy Edward Poynter during 1866 in a double wedding with her quieter sister Louisa. Poynter appeared to be a manic depressive...
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  • Irish cricketer Beulah Poynter (1883–1960), American actress and author Dougie Poynter (born 1987), English musician Edward Poynter (1836–1919), British...
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    Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1861)[2] Orpheus and Eurydice, a painting by Edward Poynter (1862)[3] Orpheus and Euridice, a painting by Frederic Leighton (1864)...
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    inscription ONE FLORIN TWO SHILLINGS. This reverse was created by Sir Edward Poynter, and was issued each year between 1893 and 1901, the year of Victoria's...
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    British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and sister-in-law of Edward Poynter and Edward Burne-Jones. Alice Kipling was born as Alice Caroline MacDonald...
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  • of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 July 1902 for artist Sir Edward Poynter, who was the President of the Royal Academy of Art from 1896 to 1918...
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    Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867)...
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    friend of George Eliot. (Another MacDonald sister married the artist Sir Edward Poynter, a further sister married the ironmaster Alfred Baldwin and was the...
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    married to artists: Georgiana to the painter Edward Burne-Jones, and her sister Agnes to Edward Poynter. A third sister, Louisa, was the mother of Kipling's...
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    men. Trained at the Slade School of Art under Alphonse Legros and Sir Edward Poynter, Tuke developed a close relationship with the Newlyn School of painters...
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    Andromeda Chained to the Rocks (1630), Théodore Chassériau (1840), Edward Poynter (1869) and Gustave Doré (1869). Another popular scenario for bondage...
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    Chained to the Rocks, 1630, showing Andromeda frightened and alone Edward Poynter, Andromeda, 1869, depicted as an idealized beauty Frederic, Lord Leighton...
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    King Solomon in front of his throne, receiving the Queen of Sheba (painting by Edward Poynter, 1890)...
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    The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon. Oil on canvas painting by Edward Poynter, 1890....
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    a crowned Tudor rose, but those of Edward VI return to the Royal Arms design used previously. Starting with Edward VI the coins feature the denomination...
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    married Charles Stuart-Worsley, was a close friend and muse of the composer Edward Elgar, and is thought to have been an inspiration for themes in his Violin...
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    abstract sculpture in front of St George's Cathedral, Perth, 2011 Mosaic Edward Poynter, Saint George for England, 1869. Central Lobby in the Palace of Westminster...
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    Clinton Edward Dawkins, a civil servant who worked in the Colonial Office. He commissioned Ambrose Poynter, architect son of Sir Edward Poynter P.R.A....
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    the aesthetic works of Edward Burne-Jones, Christina Rossetti, Philip Webb, William Morris, Simeon Solomon, and Edward Poynter were directly influenced...
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    August 2023. "W. Holman Hunt, 18 Melbury Road, Kensington, W., to [Sir Edward] Poynter". RA Collection: Archive. UK: Royal Academy of Arts. 7 January 1906...
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  • independently of the college. From 1872, some professors, particularly Edward Poynter of the Slade, started to admit women to their classes. The full opening...
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    of the bookcase; Edward Burne-Jones, John Anster Fitzgerald, Henry Holiday, Stacy Marks, Albert Moore, Thomas Morten, Edward Poynter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
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    Siege of Carthage Part of the Third Punic War Catapulta by Edward Poynter. Roman siege engine in action during the siege of Carthage in the Third Punic...
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    National Gallery (category Edward Middleton Barry buildings)
    premises in Kensington, where the air was also cleaner. In 1867 Barry's son Edward Middleton Barry proposed to replace the Wilkins building with a massive...
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    the silver coinage were inaugurated, created either by Brock or by Edward Poynter, and all denominations less than the crown, or five-shilling piece,...
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    were John Ruskin, at Oxford, and Matthew Digby Wyatt at Cambridge; Edward Poynter. gave the first lecture on 2 October 1871 at University College, London...
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    Relief print of Daniel's prayer by Edward Poynter, 1865. Daniel 6 describes how Daniel prayed even though threatened with death, while Daniel 9 records...
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    Lillie Langtry (category Mistresses of Edward VII)
    Millais in Scotland in 1879. She also sat for Sir Edward Poynter and is depicted in works by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. She became much sought-after in London...
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