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Robert de Montesquiou by Giovanni Boldini, 1897.
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The Ladies Waldegrave by Joshua Reynolds, 1780.
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The Dispatch-Bearer by Giovanni Boldini, 1879.
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The Portsmouth Dockyard by James Tissot, 1877.
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Sir James Colquhoun, 27th Bt of Colquhoun and 29th of Luss by Norman Macbeth, 1882.
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A Lost Cause: Flight of King James II after the Battle of the Boyne by Andrew Carrick Gow, 1888.
#History#Jacobites#Scotland#Ireland#James II#James VII#William III#Andrew Carrick Gow#Glorious Revolution#Battle of the Boyne
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John Mossman by Norman Macbeth, 1884.
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Greenbank House, Greenock by David Maitland MacKenzie, 1847-1872.
The street I live on today exists in-between Greenbank House (centre of picture) and Ford Cottage (centre-right).
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Luisa Casati with a greyhound by Giovanni Boldini, 1908.
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Courtyard of the Artist's Studio by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1877.
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Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby by James Tissot, 1870.
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Benjamin Stoddert, Secretary of the US Navy by E.F Andrews.
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John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane by Charles Jervas, 1708.
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Bringing Home the Body of King Karl XII of Sweden by Gustaf Cederström, 1884.
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Bernhard Otto von Rehbinder by Martin van Meytens, 1728.
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Portrait of Major John Norton as Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen, circa 1805.
#History#Scotland#Mohawk#Native American#John Norton#Teyoninhokarawen#Mather Brown#USA#Cherokee#Canada
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