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John Hamilton 1st marquess of Hamilton
Hallé Orchestra. Manchester's prin. sym. orch., founded 1858 by Charles Hallé, after success of series of orch. concerts at 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition. Hallé remained cond. (and proprietor and prin. pf. soloist) until death in 1895. In interregnum Frederic Cowen was cond. until... Read more |
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington, London, opened in 1852 as the Museum of Manufacturers at Marlborough House. It originally contained a nucleus of contemporary objects of applied art bought from the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the instigation of Prince Albert, and collections from the... Read more |
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Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle , 1820-97, Italian art critic and writer. Cavalcaselle studied painting at the Academy of Venice and traveled extensively through Italy studying its art treasures. He participated in the Revolution of 1848 and escaped to England, where he remained for several years.... Read more |
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Fannie Farmer
F ANNIEF ARMER Born: March 23, 1857 Boston, Massachusetts Died: January 15, 1915 Boston, Massachusetts American cooking expert, author, and educator Fannie Farmer was an American authority in the art of cooking and the author of six books about... Read more |
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Fannie Merritt Farmer
Fannie Merritt Farmer Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857-1915) was an American authority in the art of cookery and the author of six books about food preparation. Fannie Farmer was born in Boston, Mass., on March 23, 1857. Her parents had hopes of sending her to college. But after high school... Read more |
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British Museum
British Museum the national repository in London for treasures in science and art. Located in the Bloomsbury section of the city, it has departments of antiquities, prints and drawings, coins and medals, and ethnography. The museum was established by act of Parliament in 1753 when the collection of... Read more |
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William Richard Lethaby
William Richard Lethaby , 1857-1931, English architect. He was a founder and first principal (1893-1911) of the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts, and professor of design at the Royal College of Art. He was also an influential writer on architectural subjects. Besides his... Read more |
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University of Windsor
University of Windsor wĬn´zer , at Windsor, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; coeducational; founded 1857 as Assumption College. It achieved university status in 1953. It has faculties of arts, science, engineering, graduate studies, social sciences, education, business administration,... Read more |
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Sir Charles Halle
Sir Charles Hallé , 1819-95, German-English conductor and pianist, originally named Karl Halle. In 1857 he founded the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England He conducted many music festivals and was a noted educator. Bibliography: See the partly autobiographical Life and Letters of... Read more |
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge
Worthington, Thomas (1826–1909). English architect. He designed numerous buildings in Manchester including the canopied Gothic Albert Memorial (1862–7), the Mayfield Baths, Ardwick (1857), the Towers, Didsbury (1868), and the handsome First Pointed Brookfield Unitarian Church, Hyde... Read more |
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The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857; entrepreneurs, connoisseurs...
9781409418306 The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857; entrepreneurs, connoisseurs...95 Hardcover N5056 American art scholar Pergam specializes in...recent interest in the history or art exhibition has managed to skip... |
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Treasures in Manchester: Giles Waterfield visits a 150th anniversary...
Held in Manchester in 1857, 'Art Treasures of the United Kingdom was arguably the largest art exhibition ever staged. In 15...display of the fine arts, historical and contemporary...important elements of the 1857 event--its innovative... |
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classical.(Features)
...similar situation prevailed in Manchester, with small chamber music...concerts emerging from an Arts Treasures Exhibition given in Manchester in 1857. Halle had already been...orchestral concerts at the Exhibition, and out of these the Halle... |
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Nigel Glendinning and Hilary Macartney, ed Contributors: Nigel Glendinning,...
...Harris Frankfort Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland...establishment of museums of art open to the curious public...reminded that the influential 'Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition' was not inaugurated until 1857, an event to which many... |
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The business of blockbusters
...temporary exhibition. The suggestion...people enjoy art more if they...Temporary art exhibitions go back a...international exhibitions that riveted...The Great Exhibition of 1951 and...such as the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, ... |
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Building with colour: Owen Jones's central significance to design and...
...transformed into an immense exhibition hall that would be...promotion of Islamic art. Flores, however...periods of ancient art and should be adopted...buildings, for the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857, for a Palace of the... |
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Sacred island deities: five recently identified Ming Buddhist statues in...
...lithograph of the 1851 Great Exhibition (Fig. 1) led to elements...bronzes featured in the Great Exhibition, but that the Guanyin also appeared at the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition in 1857. The statues sold at Sotheby... |
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Richard Ford 1796-1858: Hispanophile, Connoisseur and Critic.(Book Review)
...when a sustained interest in the art of that country was in its infancy...sympathy and animosity in the London art world from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, until the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Ford's topographical sketches... |
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Exhibitionism - a bad hibit
...brought to London for exhibition before being sold...the Old Master exhibition, as we understand...that the London exhibitions, organised by...skimmed.' The 1857 Art Treasures exhibition at Manchester was an outstanding... |
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AROUND THE UK
...frieze. 5 To commemorate the 1857 exhibition, Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 Years On opens at the Manchester Art Gallery on Saturday (manchestergalleries. org), with 160 works of art and family events. Simone Kane |
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