• Sir Lawrence Burnett Gowing CBE RA (21 April 1918 – 5 February 1991) was an English artist, writer, curator and teacher. Initially recognised as a portrait...
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  • retailer Laura Gowing (fl. 2003), British historian Sir Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991), British artist, writer, curator and teacher Margaret Gowing (1921–1998)...
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    Rosand, 1985, 295–297 Gowing Hale, 715; Sohm, 97; Richard Robertson, 231 www.theoi.com Text of Ovid Metamorphoses Book 6 in English Gowing; Richard Quoted,...
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  • and an accountant in pince-nez who has come to a bad end". In 1989 Lawrence Gowing wrote that the "shock of the picture, when it was seen with a whole...
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    associated with Jesus The encyclopedia of visual art, Volume 4 by Lawrence Gowing 1983, Encyclopedia Britannica, page 626 Old Master Paintings and Drawings...
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    contemporaries rather his. His birth is placed as early as c. 1524; see Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.2 (Facts on File, 2005):...
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    sharp contrast to his narrative works, are understated and somber. Lawrence Gowing considered Tintoretto's "smouldering portraits of personalities who...
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  • businessman; Lord Lieutenant of the West Midlands Patrick George, painter Sir Lawrence Gowing, painter W. Brian Harland (1917-2003), geologist Sir Alan Hodgkin,...
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    situated in the ground floor of Quinta del Sordo, Goya's villa which Lawrence Gowing observes was thematically divided: a male side of Saturn Devouring...
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    al. 152 Clark, 341–342 Sluijter, 356–357 Sluijter, 357 Clark, 342 Lawrence Gowing thought otherwise, viewing the painting less as a treatment of the...
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    Cant 2009 Gowing 1970 Cant, Serena (2009). Vermeer and His World 1632–1675. Quercus. pp. 126–129. ISBN 978-1-84866-001-4. Gowing, Lawrence (1970). Vermeer...
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    Pieta, Speculum, Medieval Academy of America, 1969. Gowing 1987. Gowing 1987, p. 72. Gowing, Lawrence (1987). Paintings in the Louvre. New York: Stewart...
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    on a series of paintings of his mother, about which art historian Lawrence Gowing observed "it is more than 300 years since a painter showed as directly...
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    114 Huerta (2003), 46 Gowing, 55 Bonafoux, Pascal. Vermeer. New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1992. ISBN 1-56852-308-4 Gowing, Lawrence. Vermeer. University...
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    silk) Hishikawa's birth date is sometimes placed as late as c1625; see Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.3 (Facts on File, 2005):...
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 February 2019. Vivian, 1971 Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.2 (Facts on File, 2005):...
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  • (link) Clyfford Still, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976, p.112 Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.4 (Facts on File, 2005):...
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  • novel-writing career. In 1939, she met the artist (and later critic) Lawrence Gowing, who was, at the time, only 21 years old. The couple went on to spend...
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    commonly viewed as one of Vermeer's finest works. According to art critic Lawrence Gowing, comparing the work with Gabriel Metsu's The Duet, it "lacks the sociable...
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    Hector Hyppolite Transatlantic (recurring figure in 2023 TV series) Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.1 (Facts on File, 2005):...
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    Catalogue Raisonne". Rowman & Allanheld, 1984, p. 1-15. (in English) Lawrence Gowing (1983). A History of art. Prentice-Hall. p. 672. ISBN 0-13-276527-6...
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    his talents either as a historian or as an architect," according to Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.4 (Facts on File, 2005):...
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  • Royal Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 12 May 2023. "Sir Lawrence Gowing | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". Royal Academy of Arts. Archived...
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  • Fine Art under William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, William Townsend and Lawrence Gowing. Fellow students and friends there included Victor Willing, Keith Sutton...
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    Gloucestershire (1889–92) Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire (1874–77) Quoted in Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.4 (Facts on File, 2005):...
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    Paris Impérial – La vie quotidienne sous le Second Empire, p. 173 Gowing 1988, p. 10. Gowing 1988, p. 104. André Dombrowski, Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life...
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    daughter-in-law Magdalena Van Loo. There has been speculation by Sir Lawrence Gowing that the 1666 figure is not Lucretia, but in fact another Roman heroine...
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    Qichang, Tree in Summer with the Shadow, National Palace Museum, Taipei. Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.4 (Facts on File, 2005):...
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    execution is consistent with the attitude of the subject. Art historian Lawrence Gowing noted the counter-intuitive handling of gray velvet (actually a fur)...
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  • Two Old Ones Eating Soup were on the left wall. The art historian Lawrence Gowing observed that the lower floor was divided thematically, with a male...
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