Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer leaves France for England, where he produces a series of decorative panels for Montagu House, Bloomsbury.
In 1690, he left France for England, to work on painting decorations for Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, where he produced over fifty panels of fruit and flowers for overmantels and overdoors, some of which have survived at Boughton House, Northamptonshire.
Montagu House, Bloomsbury, the first home of the British Museum, also known as Montague House
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Art in Ruins, based in Bloomsbury, London, utilizes 1960s conceptual art strategies popularized by Art & Language and Gilbert and George.
Then in 1918 Lytton Strachey published his critique of Victorianism in the shape of four ironic biographies in Eminent Victorians, which added to the arguments around Bloomsbury that continue to this day, and "brought him the triumph he had always longed for ... The book was a sensation".
It was demonstrated to the public at a "steam circus" organized by Trevithick on a circular track in Bloomsbury, just south of the present-day Euston Square tube station in London.
On 27 April 1861 he married the distinguished painter, Ann Mary, daughter of Joseph Severn, himself a painter and the friend of Keats, who had succeeded Newton in Rome; she died in 1866 at their residence, 74 Gower Street, Bloomsbury.
He has written four books: Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley (HarperCollins, 2001) a dual father/son biography of musicians Jeff Buckley and Tim Buckley; Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme (Bloomsbury, 2004), a history of extreme sports; and Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth (Da Capo, 2008).
She edited the anthologies Old Flame: 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine (2012) John Poch and scholar Bill Beverly and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2013) with poet M.E. Silverman.
Dover House was designed by James Paine for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Bart., MP, in the 1750s and remodelled by Henry Flitcroft, as "Montagu House", for George Montagu, created 1st Duke of Montagu, who had removed from Bloomsbury.
In 1777, she began work on Montagu House in Portman Square in London, moving in in 1781, on land leased for 99 years.
Tyler-Lewis, Kelly: The Lost Men Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2007 ISBN 978-0-7475-7972-4
Tyler-Lewis, Kelly: The Lost Men Bloomsbury Publications, London 2007 ISBN 978-0-7475-7972-4
In 2012, FFM made further changes by selling Fairchild Books to Bloomsbury Publishing and soon after, acquiring NowManifest, fashion blog aggregator featuring content from the fashion blogosphere.
He was largely responsible for the contents of the British Museum Act of 1963, which gave the Natural History Museum complete independence from the British Museum for the first time, authorised the museum to dispose of duplicate items, and allowed it to store and even display items away from the main building at Bloomsbury.
Along with her sister Kathleen she ran away to London where they lived in a one room studio at 13 Regent Square in Camden on the outskirts of Bloomsbury.
During the last few years of life his health visibly declined, and he died suddenly at 10 Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, on 28 June 1797.
Ghosts of Empire is a 2011 book by Kwasi Kwarteng published by Bloomsbury.
The second part, "How to be a Particular Alien", describes particular occupations from Bloomsbury intellectual to bus driver, finishing with how to be a naturalised citizen, which includes the eating of porridge for breakfast, and alleging that you like it.
Gray co-founded the October Gallery in 1978, a charitable trust centred on an avant-garde, multicultural art gallery in Bloomsbury, London.
When King's ignored an ultimatum demanding his return, hundreds of UCL students, transported in furniture vans from Bloomsbury or arriving at Aldwych tube station, stormed the King's quad.
An open-air sculpture, the Lanchester Car Monument, in the Bloomsbury Heartlands area of Birmingham, designed by Tim Tolkien, on the site where Lanchester built their first four-wheel petrol car in 1895.
It was from Lawrence Hilliard that Charles I received the portrait of Queen Elizabeth now at Montagu House, since Van der Dort's catalogue describes it as done by old Hilliard, and bought by the King of young Hilliard.
Bloomsbury is an area of central London between Euston Road and Holborn, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area.
Malet Street is a street in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, central London, England.
She is the author of "The Monopolists," a book forthcoming from Bloomsbury that tells the true story of the board game Monopoly.
The Woolfs spent more and more time in Rodmell, eventually living there full-time from 1940 when their flat in Mecklenburgh Square, Bloomsbury, London, was damaged during an air raid.
Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.
In 1731, John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, abandoned the existing grand Montagu House in the socially declining district of Bloomsbury, which was later to become the premises of the British Museum, and purchased a site that had once been occupied by the Archbishops of York's London residence and had later been part of the site of Whitehall Palace.
He was educated at H.Solomon’s Boarding School at Hammersmith and entered University College School in Bloomsbury at the age of fourteen.
The 2009 book Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding (Bloomsbury Press) documents the drug culture of Oelwein and how it ties into larger issues of rural flight and small town economic decline placed in the historic context of the drug trade.
A collector of Bloomsbury Group first editions, he also wrote on one of Bloomsbury's best known members, Virginia Woolf.
The Poetry Bookshop operated at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in the Bloomsbury district of central London, from 1913 to 1926.
Shone curated several exhibitions dedicated to British art, such as Walter Sickert’s portraits at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath (1990); a full Sickert retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1992–93, with Wendy Baron); The Art of Bloomsbury for the Tate Gallery, London (1999).
In 1991, Spear played saxophone in Vivian Stanshall's show 'Rawlinson Dog Ends' at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London.
In 2012, she appeared at the Bloomsbury Theatre alongside Jen Brister, Zoe Lyons and Susan Calman in aid of Stonewall UK charity event which was headlined by Sarah Millican.
This album coincided with a Some Bizzare exhibition at the Horse Hospital arts venue in Bloomsbury, London.
James Burton, a successful London architect who had developed large areas of Bloomsbury and the houses around Regent's Park, purchased land from the Eversfield estate in order to put into being his concept of a seaside resort.
The Commissioners for the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711 realised that, due to rapid development in the Bloomsbury area during the latter part of the 17th and early part of the 18th centuries, the area (then part of the parish of St Giles in the Fields) needed to be split off and given a parish church of its own.
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St George's Bloomsbury is located on Bloomsbury Way next door to the Bloomsbury Thistle Hotel.
In 1669, the Bloomsbury Estate came into ownership of the Russell family when William, son of William Russell, 1st Duke and 5th Earl of Bedford (1616–1700), married Lady Rachel Vaughan, one of the daughters of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (1607–1667).
In that same year King George III donated the collection to the new British Museum at Montagu House, where they were originally known as the "King's pamphlets" and added to the Royal Library Collection.
Matthew Aid, The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency, 432 pages, ISBN 978-1-59691-515-2, Bloomsbury Press (June 9, 2009)
Treadwell's Bookshop is an esoteric bookshop in Bloomsbury, central London.
The band also appeared at the Generations Jazz Festival, held in Bloomsbury, London, where they had the enviable opportunity to act as warm-up acts for such jazz greats as Ben Allison, and rising trombonist star Dennis Rollins, as well as a host of London-based professional jazz groups.
Designed by Thomas Cubitt and built between 1829 and 1847, it is named after Woburn Abbey, the main country seat of the Dukes of Bedford, who developed much of Bloomsbury.