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Sophie Gengembre Anderson: Elaine of Astolat

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Very much a Modern Woman, she was in London during the height of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, when she painted her masterpiece of Elaine of Astolat.

October 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Fair Maids: the paintings of Sophie Gengembre Anderson

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Are these beautiful paintings of women and children just eye-candy for middle-class Victorian women?

July 15, 2017 General, Painting

Family portraits by William Merritt Chase

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He kept a pictorial record of his wife and children in more formal portraits too. Here’s a selection.

September 18, 2016 General, Painting

Meet the family: William Merritt Chase at home

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He seems to have loved painting children. Here is his family, at leisure and play, in informal views, often in pastel.

September 17, 2016 General, Painting

Internet-enabled toys, kids, and their safety

As a parent, threats to children now seem out of your control. Should you let them have that Internet-enabled Barbie doll, or remain a Luddite?

December 11, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Grandsons get complicated: how giving an iPad turned tricky

I knew that creating my grandson an Apple ID for his new iPad Mini would be interesting.

August 1, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Mayhem in Mission Control

After our son used my MacBook Pro, Mission Control has extra desktop spaces, and whenever I close an app in full screen, another space is added to that list. How can I restore my Mac to the way it was?

June 8, 2015 Macs, Technology
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