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Augustus Egg Augustus Egg
Egg, Augustus (b London, 2 May 1816; d Algiers, ?26 Mar. 1863). English painter. He painted historical, anecdotal, and literary themes (he was a friend of Dickens and a talented actor), and under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites ( Holman Hunt was another friend) he also turned to overtly... Read more
Sir John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais , 1829-96, English painter. A prodigy, he began studying at the Royal Academy at the age of 11. In 1848, together with William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he initiated the Pre-Raphaelite movement. His early work shows a painstaking rendering of minute detail... Read more
Tate Gallery Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery London, originally the National Gallery of British Art. The original building (in Millbank on the former site of Millbank Prison), with a collection of 65 modern British paintings, was given by Sir Henry Tate and was opened in 1897. It was extended by another gift of Tate's in 1899,... Read more
Eleanora E. Tate Eleanora E. Tate
Tate, Eleanora E. 1948–(Eleanora Elaine Tate) PersonalBorn 1948, in Canton, MO; daughter of Clifford and Lillie Tate; married Zack E. Hamlett III (a photographer), August 19, 1972; children: Gretchen R. Education: Drake University, B.S. (journalism), 1973.AddressesHome—Knightdale, NC.... Read more
Sir Henry Tate Sir Henry Tate
Tate, Sir Henry (b Chorley, Lancashire, 11 Mar. 1819; d London, 5 Dec. 1899). British sugar tycoon (the inventor of the sugar cube) and art collector. In 1890 he offered the nation his collection, consisting mainly of the work of Victorian contemporaries, on condition that the government found a... Read more
Philip Wilson Steer Philip Wilson Steer
Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942, English landscape painter. Steer worked largely in the tradition of French impressionist painting and was considered the greatest English landscape painter of his day. He brought to his subjects a considerable understanding of pattern, color, space, and especially... Read more
Tate Lyle PLC Tate Lyle PLC
Tate & Lyle PLC Sugar QuayLower Thames StreetLondon EC3R 6DQUnited KingdomTelephone: (020) 7626-6525Fax: (020) 7623-5213Web site: http://www.tateandlyle.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1921Employees: 21,500Sales: £4.09 billion ($6.24 billion) (2000)Stock Exchanges... Read more
Nahum Tate Nahum Tate
Nahum Tate , 1652-1715, English poet and dramatist, b. Dublin. He wrote several popular adaptations of Shakespeare, the most famous being his King Lear (1681), in which he omitted the part of the fool and had Cordelia survive to marry Edgar. With Dryden he wrote the second part of Absalom and... Read more
Roman Polanski Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski 1933-, Polish-French film director, b. Paris. His family returned to Kraków, Poland, when he was three. His parents were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and his mother died at Auschwitz, but Polanski, living partly on his own, escaped the Holocaust. He began to act... Read more
Paul Delvaux Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux 1897-1994, Belgian painter. Delvaux, influenced by Magritte and Chirico, created meticulous surreal compositions based on Renaissance ideas of perspective and peopled with self-absorbed somnambulists. Often containing an ironic eroticism, Delvaux's visionary paintings allude to the... Read more

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Artful dodges in London.
Newspaper article from: New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) ...dog. I went past him the next...headed for Tate Britain. As...galleries. MILLAIS VS MODERNMillais...exhibition of Millais' works puts...centre of a Millais survey which...domesticity and the family, and a hatred...stuck in ...
A happy find -- a new friend in an old gallery.(ARTS GUIDE)
Newspaper article from: New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) ...worksby Rossetti and Millais, makes it the perfect...turned and for the past 20 years Victorian...on loan from the Tate Gallery, is the centrepiece...the foreground is a family of acrobats. A boy...in Derby Day every face is individualised...

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