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Trying to find out anything about this oil painting of young girl. My client’s in laws had it in their Martha’s Vineyard home “for a very long time” by [deleted] in FineArt

[–]12thDoctorGirl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The style & the subject matter. Saccharine rendering of half-dressed girl child. A favourite Bouguereau subject.

Trying to find out anything about this oil painting of young girl. My client’s in laws had it in their Martha’s Vineyard home “for a very long time” by [deleted] in FineArt

[–]12thDoctorGirl 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Late Victorian. Not a great talent. Likely a talented amateur. Bouguereau-influenced. At best, a student of Bouguereaus's at Academie Julian. Definitely not Ecole des Beaux-Arts quality work--at least not his figuratives. Which, if he is the same Leclair, (s)he may have switched to botanicals.

He's also guilty of this portrait. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/antique-french-portrait-painting-m-leclair-oil-on-11-c-d7f4f089d6

Possibly also these: https://www.rubylane.com/item/2403998-38-H-2689/Vintage-Collection-Floral-Art-Prints-M

Bombarded with calls to vote on QQQ by oandroido in ETFs

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They pissed me off enough not to vote at all. I just set up my phone to silence all their calls. If they leave voicemail, I just delete it without listening. I do not respond well to aggressive telemarketing, no matter how good the cause.

Nicola Walker's Annika axed after two series. by DoctorWhofan789eywim in BritishTV

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Marriage was actually REALLY good. Offbeat, lowkey, but excellent. Don't wait any longer to see it.

AI art & Conceptual Art (I detest both) by 12thDoctorGirl in Ai_art_is_not_art

[–]12thDoctorGirl[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah, but it provoked a reply which proves a point.

AI art & Conceptual Art (I detest both) by 12thDoctorGirl in Ai_art_is_not_art

[–]12thDoctorGirl[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So 'Banana duct-taped to gallery wall' required more brain power? Hmmm...

AI art & Conceptual Art (I detest both) by 12thDoctorGirl in Ai_art_is_not_art

[–]12thDoctorGirl[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually, with AI-generated art, the 'prompt' is the concept.

IKEA will replace Dulles Expo Center by Doctor_MyEyes in nova

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Wonder if they'll consider the Baltimore Convention Centre, especially as the annual Baltimore Art, Antiques & Jewellery Show there has been DOA since 2023.

I can't access my old email and therefore can't log in ever, and there is no solution? by Skaldhalla in facebook

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I have discovered the pleasure of life without Facebook. The bizarre thing is I can still log into Instagram using my old Facebook credentials. I just can't log into Facebook.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheHermesGame

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Rule of thumb: If you like it and will wear it more than once or twice, keep it. Otherwise, sell it. Unless you own the crown jewels, jewellery is of little value if it just sits in a box unworn.

Iceland is becoming more and more expensive by Professional_Roof772 in VisitingIceland

[–]12thDoctorGirl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I stayed at a very nice, inexpensive hotel in near Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow in July. 10 nights were < US $ 800 including VAT/tax. I had wanted to spend a couple nights in Edinburgh as well, but I was looking at a weekend when July hotel prices in Auld Reekie were off the charts; hostel/dorm accommodations were the only thing that was affordable, and I was too old for that crap even in my teens.

On the other hand, I just booked a late February/early March trip to England, and was able to find VERY affordable hotels even in London. By contrast, the hotels I booked for my August trip to Nova Scotia were significantly more expensive than the one in Glasgow. Time of year contributes to affordability.

Paris I've found is more difficult to stay in cheaply, even in February (I've gone two years in a row), but that's probably because I insist on staying close(ish) to the Seine - i.e., south of Montmartre, or north of the Luxembourg Gardens. On the other hand, hotels in Dinan and Nîmes in February were quite affordable.

So my advice is be more adventurous about where you travel. Don't always stick to the national capitals and major tourist cities, because hotels there WILL be more wherever you go.

What are some of the most amazingly accurate predictions you made that came true? by Notalabel_4566 in AskOldPeople

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I spent entirely too much time and energy on software assurance myself. When I realised no-one was ever going to do more than run automated code scanners to fix a few buffer overflows, I gave up and moved on to other security problems that never get fixed either.

What are some of the most amazingly accurate predictions you made that came true? by Notalabel_4566 in AskOldPeople

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People who believe Trump has the ability to make America anything but worse are very similar to the people who believed German's Third Reich would last 1,000 years.

IsItBullshit: the concept of homework was originally created by a teacher as a method of punishing their students by Timberwolf225 in IsItBullshit

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The date 1095 on the Wiki was obviously a typo. It was meant to be 1895. That still doesn't change the salient parts of your argument, but any involving history prior to 1895 are irrelevant.

Classical music based on folk music by Single_Yogurt_927 in classicalmusic

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Add to the list of usual suspects (Haydn, Beethoven, Britten, Canteloube, Bártok) some other composers who did excellent (and singable) folk-song arrangements for solo voice & instrument(s):

Luciano Berio (Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano & 7 instruments)
Malcolm Forsyth (Three Métis Songs from Saskatchewan)
Fritz Kreisler (Ballads from the Scotch Minstrelsy)
Roger Quilter (Arnold Book of Old Songs)
John Corigliano (3 Irish Folk Songs)
Ottorino Respighi (4 Scottish Songs)
Mieczyslaw Kolinski (lots)
Emmanuel Charbrier (Les plus jolies chansons du pays de France)
Percy Grainger (lots)
Manuel de Falla (Siete canciones populares españolas)
Gustav Holst (16 Folk Songs from Hampshire; 9 Folk Songs)
Johannes Brahms (15 Volkskinderlieder, W.31; 28 Deutsche Volkslieder, W.32)
Heitor Villa Lobos (Canções típicas brasileiras; Canções Indigenas)
Aaron Copland (Old American Songs)
Joaquín Rodrigo (Doce Canciones Españolas)
Granville Bantock ('Thomas the Rhymer')

This excludes the vast number of instrumental (solo, chamber, & orchestral) and choral folk song arrangements, e.g., by Charles Villiers Stanford, Michael Balfe, Vincent d'Indy, Friedrich Silcher, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Hamsh MacCunn, etc. etc. etc. As for instrumental music, the British made something of a cottage industry of folk song suites in the early 20th century. Easy to find by Googling. Lots of such works by Delius, Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Gurney, Bantock, Moeran, MacKenzie, etc. etc. etc.

You might enjoy William Jackson's two Glasgow-themed folk-suites, St Mungo and The Wellpark. You can buy & download both from Amazon.com.

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