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Finest Hour 184, Second Quarter 2019 Page 29 By Hugo Vickers Hugo Vickers is a writer and broadcaster who has written biographies of many twentieth-century figures, including Elizabeth, The Queen […]

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At the end of the Second Empire, this impressive group portrait was commissioned from Tissot by the members of the Cercle de la rue Royale, a gentleman's club which had been founded in 1852. Each of the twelve men portrayed paid one thousand francs for the painting's creation, and the finished work was put on display in one of the club's salons. It was decided, however, that the painting would be awarded to one of the sponsors or his descendants when and if the club ceased to exist, the…

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"Raduim" (Monsieur and Madame Curie), People of the Day No.1, from Vanity Fair December 20, 1904 by Julius Mendes Price (Imp), Vincent Brooks Day & Son 1904. A work from the collections of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums of San Francisco, CA.