Railway workers laying track at Ryecroft, late 19th century

http://www.stuartwilliams.net/walsallsrailways.htm

Hats, Hats, Hats - Headwear in the Early American Republic 1780-1789

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1780 Winthrop Chandler (American artist, 1747-1790) Mrs Samuel Chandler

1783 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827) The Artist's Mother, Mrs. Charles Peale

1784 Joseph Wright (American artist, 1756-1793) Hannah Bloomfield Giles

1785 Matthew Pratt (American artist, 1734-1805) Charity Platt Bush (1761-88)

1785 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827). Mrs. James Crawford

1785 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs. John Johnston (Martha Spear)

1785 Robert Edge Pine (American artist, 1730-1788) Mrs. Alexander Contee Hanson, Sr.

1785-90 Beardsley Limner (American artist, fl 1785-1805) Mrs Hezekiah Beardsley

1786-93 Beardsley Limner (American artist, fl 1785-1805) Harmony Child (Mrs Oliver Wright) 1765-2861

1786 Robert Edge Pine (American artist, 1730-1788) Dorcas Spear (Mrs. William Patterson)

1787 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827) Mary Chew (Mrs Thomas Elliott)

1787 Christian Gullager (American artist, 1759-1826) Sarah Greenleaf (Mrs Oflin Boardman)

1787 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Alexander Hamilton

1787 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs. James Duane

1788 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827) Mrs Robert Gilmour

1788 Unknown Artist Mrs Jacob Edwards

1788 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827). Peggy Sanderson (Mrs. Christopher Hughes)

1788 Unknown Artist Ruth Stanley (Mrs John Mix)

1788 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Martha Tennent Rogers (Mrs. David Rogers)

1789 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827) Mrs Robert Goldsborough

1789 Christian Gullager (American artist, 1759-1826) Martha Saunders (Mrs Nicholas Salisbury)

1789 Christian Gullager (American artist, 1759-1826) Elizabeth Sewall Mrs Samuel Salisbury

1789 Christian Gullager (American artist, 1759-1826) Rebecca Salisbury Mrs Daniel Waldo

1789 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Clarissa Seymour Mrs Truman Marsh

1789 Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Esther Boardman

1789 Winthrop Chandler (American artist, 1747-1790) Mary Gleason Chandler (1752-89)
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Frank Dicksee - Harmony

His design for this picture originated in a sketching exercise at the Langham Sketching Club. The theme chosen for illustration by members of the club had been ‘Music’.

1877

When exhibited at the RA in the same year it was so popular it hung in the place of honour opposite Millais' 'Yeoman of the Guard'. It was bought by the Chantry Bequest and is now in Tate Britain.

Middleton Jameson

Price Realized £7,500

Assigai making Mashonaland
signed, dated and inscribed 'MIDDLETON JAMESON/Fort Salisbury. 1892' (lower right) and inscribed 'Assigai making Mashonaland/Middleton Jameson/9 Rue des Fourneaux/Paris/France' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 x 28¼ in. (53.2 x 71.7 cm.)



[A tranquil spot on the river]
Price Realized £438
signed and dated 'MIDDLETON JAMESON/1876' (lower left)
oil on canvas, unframed
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)

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fl.1877-1919
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton_Jameson

Creswick Boydell - The Fisherman's Daughter

fl. 1889 - 1894
oil on canvas
14 x 10"

Horace Fisher - Rosina Ferrara

Rosina Ferrara (1861–1934) was an Italian girl from the island of Capri, who became the favorite muse of American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosina_Ferrara

oil on canvas laid down on board
15 x 13"

Old-fashioned British seaside fun

[this is modern if it looks puzzling]
- The Old Time Portrait Studio on Blackpool's pier

Where to find a Punch and Judy show, donkey rides, saucy postcards, an insect museum and other end-of-the-pier delights

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/aug/07/kitsch-british-seaside-attractions