Historical family portrait

Portrait by Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1927. During her time, Queen Mary - the consort of George V, grandmother of the present queen - oversaw a great wealth of jewelry being added to the already brimming royal coffers of the United Kingdom. Both in the collection of "crown jewels", and those held in private possession of the Windsor ladies. Many pieces were new-made, other were redesigns of earlier pieces. And she also purchased important pieces from those royals who had not fared so well…

ab. 1841 Leopold Kupelwieser - The Lössl family (Wien Museum Karlsplatz)

Daughters of John Beverley Robinson, Augusta, Emily, and Louisa. Commissioned in honour of the marriages of Emily and Louisa. A gift to Mrs. Robinson from ...

Click to view larger. Laurits Tuxen (December 9, 1853, Copenhagen – November 21, 1927, Copenhagen), a Danish painter. He was best known for his group portraits of the interconnected royal families of Denmark, Great Britain, Russia, and Greece, and for his thickly peopled scenes of coronations and royal weddings. Christian IX (April 8, 1818, Schleswig – January 29, 1906, Copenhagen) and his wife, Louise of Hesse (September 7, 1817, Kassel – September 29, 1898, Bernstorff Castle), were king…

As I've mentioned before, Lucille Ball's career didn't really start to hit its stride until the mid-40s. She'd been making films since 1933 and had never managed to graduate to leading roles in A pictures. But things began to pick up with her move to MGM in 1943 and the studio's promotion of her as a wise-cracking glamour girl. And while her brief time at Hollywood's starriest studio gave no indication of what heights she'd reach in the next decade, it produced one very significant and…

Victorian Family Photo