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The Casual Ward
''Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward'' is an 1874 oil painting by British painter Luke Fildes, a key work in nineteenth-century British social realism. The painting shows a street scene of impoverished and weary men, women and children waiting by the side of the road outside a police station, huddled against the cold evening, waiting to be given a ticket for temporary admission to a workhouse for the night. Many resisted taking up permanent residence at the workhouse, where men and women would be separated, and would be required to work to pay for their board and lodging; once they entered, many only left when they died. Instead, from 1864, if the police in London certified that a person was genuinely in need, they could stay for one night on a "casual" basis, and leave the next morning, but they would have to queue up again for temporary admission the next evening. Poverty and vagrancy were pressing issues in Victorian London, and the issuance of "casual" tickets doubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Applicants For Admission To A Casual Ward
''Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward'' is an 1874 oil painting by British painter Luke Fildes, a key work in nineteenth-century British social realism. The painting shows a street scene of impoverished and weary men, women and children waiting by the side of the road outside a police station, huddled against the cold evening, waiting to be given a ticket for temporary admission to a workhouse for the night. Many resisted taking up permanent residence at the workhouse, where men and women would be separated, and would be required to work to pay for their board and lodging; once they entered, many only left when they died. Instead, from 1864, if the police in London certified that a person was genuinely in need, they could stay for one night on a "casual" basis, and leave the next morning, but they would have to queue up again for temporary admission the next evening. Poverty and vagrancy were pressing issues in Victorian London, and the issuance of "casual" tickets doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Powell Frith
William Powell Frith (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting ''The Sleeping Model'' as his Diploma work. He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth". Early life William Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in the then West Riding of Yorkshire on 9 January 1819. He had originally intended to be an auctioneer. Frith was encouraged to take up art by his father, a hotelier in Harrogate. Frith was great uncle and an advisor to the English school portrait painter Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1932). He moved to London in 1835 where he began his formal art studies at Sass's Academy in Charlotte Street, before attending the Royal Academy Schools. Frith started his career as a portrait painter and first exhibited at the British Institution in 1838. In the 1840s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Ridsdale Tate
Edwin Ridsdale Tate L.R.I.B.A (1862–1922) was a British antiquary, artist and architect based in York. Life Tate was born in York, where his birth was registered in the Bootham sub-district. For a time, he worked for local architectural firm R. Gould and C. Fisher. Before returning to York, he also worked in London and Carlisle. In 1916, he married Mary Louise Elsworth Wray at Holy Trinity, Micklegate. He died in York, and his death was registered in the East York district. Architecture The buildings for which Tate is best known are an anchorage attached to All Saints' Church, North Street, York (1910) and the Tempest Anderson Hall (1912). Both were built of reinforced concrete. Following the construction of the Tempest Anderson Hall he collaborated with Walter Harvey-Brook in founding and shaping the Museum of Medieval Architecture beneath it in 1912. He was a licentiate member of the Royal Institute of British ArchitectsRidsdale Tate.E. 1929. ''The Charm of St. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, based at 38 Bury Street, London, is a firm of British art dealers, specialising in Old Master paintings and drawings. The company was founded in 1752. In 1948, Jack Baer Jack Baer (October 29, 1914 – March 9, 2002) was a college football and baseball player and a college baseball coach. Baer was the son of Herman and Anna Baer. He was a 1933 Shawnee (Oklahoma) High School graduate where he was an all-round athl ... took over the running of the Hazlitt Gallery, and built it into "a world-class concern", and in 1973, a merger created Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, opening a New York affiliate gallery. References External links * Companies based in the City of Westminster 1752 establishments in England British companies established in 1752 Retail companies established in 1752 {{London-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
