Sheffield River and Smoking Chimneys - Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1915) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
The Pond - Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1930) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
A Captured German Officer Interrogated by Russian Soldiers - Edward Eales (c.1945) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Sunbeam Alpine' Racing - Frank Wootton (1911–98) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Beorna - Nick Andrew (b.1957) acrylic and oil on paper (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Edward Jenner Vaccinating a Boy - Eugène-Ernest Hillemacher (1884) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Smallpox was once a common epidemic disease that killed, blinded or disfigured its victims. In the eighteenth century its impact was reduced in Europe by a Chinese practice called variolation, the injection of smallpox fluid from an infected human into a healthy human. In 1798, Edward Jenner proposed a safer modification of...
Ceylon Scenery - Edward Lear (1874) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
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The Harvesters' Supper - Henry Herbert La Thangue (1903) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Ceylon Scenery - Edward Lear (1874) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex - Ethel Mortlock (c.1865–1928) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
At The Coal Face - William D. Dring (1945) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Fried Eggs - Sopho Chkhikvadze (b.1972) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Tolcarne Inn - Dod Procter (1935) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Medusa Grown Old - Marion Elizabeth Adnams (1947) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
The Hermit - Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
The Barque 'Birkdale', View Aft from the Bowsprit - John Everett (1922) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
On 22 April 1920, Everett sailed from Bristol for Sabine, Texas, as third mate of the barque ‘Birkdale’. This voyage resulted in many drawings and paintings. The ‘Birkdale’, built in 1892, was the last barque to fly the red ensign. She spent nearly all her working life in the Chilean nitrate trade and was wrecked on the...
Alexander Reid - Vincent Van Gogh (1887) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
The Chateau of Medan - Paul Cezanne (1879-80) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Shipbuilding - Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Tulips, The Blue Jug - Samuel Peploe (1919) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
By the lake - Mary Dignam (1928) Canada (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Kestrel over the Cornish Coast - Richard Barrie Treleaven (1920–2009) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Cattle - Joseph Denovan Adam (1878) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Low Tide, Wicklow - Lilian Lucy Davidson c.1934 (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
Head of a man - Harold Riley (1934-2023) (d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net)
