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William Linton (artist)
William Linton (17911876) was a British landscape artist. Life and artistic work Born in Liverpool, Linton grew up at Lancaster and Cartmel, and went to school at Windermere where later he spent holidays. At the age of sixteen he was placed in a merchant's office. He however did not like the job. For his own pleasure, he started to copy works by Claude Gellee (Lorrain, 1600–1682) and Richard Wilson (1714–1782). Eventually he made art his profession. Linton's later works still bear strong influence of Claude Lorrain's manner with its investigation of natural light effects, of Richard Wilson with his large-scale panoramic compositions, and particularly of Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714–1789) with his inclination to an idealised classical landscape. By 1817 Linton settled in London and started to exhibit at the Royal Academy and British Institution. At that time, his subjects often presented scenery in Scotland and in the North of England, especially in the vicinity of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Linton
William Linton may refer to: *William C. Linton, founder and editor of the ''Chicago Whip'' newspaper *William S. Linton (1856–1927), U.S. politician from Michigan *William James Linton (1812–1897), Anglo-American author, artist and political reformer *William Linton (artist) (1791–1876), British landscapist *William Linton (physician) (1801–1880), Scottish army physician *William Richardson Linton (1850–1908), British botanist *William Alderman Linton (1891–1960), Presbyterian missionary and educator in Korea *William Linton (songwriter), writer of the #1 hit song "Easier Said Than Done" See also *Linton (name) {{hndis, Linton, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hofland
Barbara Hofland (1770 – 4 November 1844) was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. She was asked by John Soane to write a description of his still extant museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields. Life Born Barbara Wreaks or Wreakes, her father Robert Wreakes was a Sheffield manufacturer, but he died when she was three and she was raised by a maiden aunt. She began writing for the local paper and started a milliner's shop, but she sold it when she married the businessman Thomas Bradshawe Hoole in 1796, only to be widowed two years later with an infant son.Dennis Butts: The role of women writers in early children's literature. In: ''Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature'', ed. Maria Nikolajeva (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 1995). She went to live with her mother-in-law in Attercliffe, and supported herself partly from generous subscriptions given for a book of her poetry. In 1809 she opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. The writings of Landon are transitional between Romanticism and the Victorian Age. Her first major breakthrough came with ''The Improvisatrice'' and thence she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, casting her influence on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti. Her influence can also be found in Alfred Tennyson and in America, where she was very popular. Poe regarded her genius as self-evident. In spite of these wide influences, due to the perceived immorality of Landon's lifestyle, her works were more or less deliberately suppressed and misrepresented after her death. Early life Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London to John Landon and Catherine Jane, ''née'' Bishop.Byron (2004). A precocious child, Landon learned to read as a toddler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Higham (artist)
Thomas Higham (11 February 1795 – 1844) was an English artist specialising in an antiquary and topographical engravings. The British Museum has a large collection of his work donated by his nephew William Aldis Wright. Thomas Higham was born to Thomas Wright and Charlotte Aldis in Bramfield, Suffolk. Gallery File:Thomas Higham (1818) Hoxne Hall.jpg, Hoxne Hall, from ''Excursions Through Suffolk, Vol. 1: Illustrated With Engravings'' by Thomas Cromwell References External links * Engravings for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books, with poetical illustrations by Letitia Elizabeth Landon: *:1833, of , by William Linton. *:1835, of , by George Pickering. *:1837, of by James Duffield Harding. *:1837, of by Thomas Allom. *:1838, of by William Purser. *:1840, of , by David Roberts. *:1841, of , by Thomas Allom. *In Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834, as illustration to Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem : :* Engraving of ''Tomb of Ibrahim Padshah, Bejapore'' painted by Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. The writings of Landon are transitional between Romanticism and the Victorian Age. Her first major breakthrough came with ''The Improvisatrice'' and thence she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, casting her influence on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti. Her influence can also be found in Alfred Tennyson and in America, where she was very popular. Poe regarded her genius as self-evident. In spite of these wide influences, due to the perceived immorality of Landon's lifestyle, her works were more or less deliberately suppressed and misrepresented after her death. Early life Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London to John Landon and Catherine Jane, ''née'' Bishop.Byron (2004). A precocious child, Landon learned to read as a toddle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poems Of Felicia Hemans In The Winter's Wreath, 1831/A Song Of Delos
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the Sanskrit ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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