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...Victorian era. In 35 years, he stole $4,000,000, never once resorted to violence. He forged checks on a Turkish bank, grabbed ?70,000 worth of rough diamonds in South Africa, stole 700,000 francs worth of bonds from the Calais-Paris express, and once took a famous Gainsborough painting from its frame in a London dealer's gallery. Operating mainly in Europe, he stayed out of reach of the Pinkertons, was imprisoned only twice for petty thefts. During Worth's heyday, he and William Pinkerton frequently met in a fashionable London bar and developed a fond...
...described as "an amiable and extravagant peer, without any particular talent except for conviviality." He did have sense enough to protest the policy of taxing the American Colonies in 1775, observing that it was "commenced in iniquity, is pursued with resentment, and can terminate in nothing but blood." Thomas Gainsborough's portrait makes Manners look dull and mannered, though no one knew better than Gainsborough how to paint the freshness of youth (as his famed Blue Boy demonstrates...
Captain Harry Crookshank, Tory M.P. for Gainsborough, rose last week in the House of Commons and described the condition of Britain. Said he: "There is muddle in defense, muddle in groundnuts, jmddle in newsprint, muddle in coal, muddle in housing, and now the greatest muddle of all-meat. 'Muddle, muddle toil and muddle' is [the government's] motto. The trouble is that these witches somewhere on the Whitehall heath cannot go on to say, 'Fire burn and cauldron bubble,' because there is a fuel muddle as well...
...elegant portraitists, Reynolds and Gainsborough, ruled the calm and decorous art world of 18th Century London. But there was also an opposition, most notably represented by young, deeply religious William Blake with his alternately angelic and demonic visions. Others in the opposition ducked the angels; they preferred...
Naked Royalty. In art, it was a period dominated by elegance and smugness. His contemporaries, Guardi in Italy, Fragonard in France and Gainsborough in England, all devoted 'themselves to the depiction of pomp and pleasure. Goya did, too, but he painted pompous fools and smirking harlots. He was as harsh and realistic a portraitist as ever lived (and sometimes a surprisingly offhand one), but that did not prevent him from becoming Madrid's court painter. Goya's paintings of the royal family were much admired, for no one dared admit that he showed them naked...