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  • In Search of a Reputation

    Bastien-Lepage

    by Neil Miley ...
    The War of 1870 between France and Germany has been over for a year. In the turmoil of a defeated France, rebuilding with an uncertain form of government, still occupied by the armies of the newly formed German Empire, a young artist emerges. Recovering from wounds, finding allies in all classes, developing self understanding and building alliances inside the Academic art world, presents a series ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry Irving and Bastien-Lepage

    by Neil Miley ...
    In 1880 the French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage was one of the rising starts of modern art and a fi ne portraitist. Henry Irving on the other hand was acknowledge as the fi nest Shakespearian actor in England. The two met at a dinner in the Beefsteak Room one evening and set out to create what would become one of the best unfi nished works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • The Unfinished Portrait

    by Neil Miley ...
    Series Book 2 - Bastien-Lepage Series
    The book is built around the relationships of leading artists and actors in London starting in the 1880s. The independent life of an unfinished portrait that is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, becomes the story as the people that create it fade from popular memory.Sarah Bernhardt, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Laurence Alma Tadema, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Bram Stoker, ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Failure and Success in Equal Parts

    by Neil A Miley ...
    A historical novel based around Jules Bastien-Lepage's obsession with the creation of his painting of Joan of Arc that today is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Set against the backdrop of the emergence of the French Third Republic and enmeshed in the political battle between Catholicism and Secularism, the context of the painting as a politically disruptive work is exposed. From ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • The Royal Portrait

    by Neil A Miley ...
    Series Book 4 - Bastien-Lepage Series
    Sarah Bernhardt persuades The Prince of Wales to have Jules Bastien-Lepage paint his portrait. The physical barrier of the English Channel terrifies Jules, almost as much as his friends overestimation of his abilities.How does a French Republican paint a man who is both the leader of the Masonic movement and future King of England, Emperor of India?When the choice is between a portrait commission ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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  • The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola (Book Analysis)

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    by Bright Summaries ...
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    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Ladies' Paradise with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Ladies’ Paradise by Émile Zola, which tells the story of Denise, a young woman who begins working at the new department store that is gradually taking over the area and putting the local shops out of business. As this fight for ... Read more

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    The art and lives of Florence Broadhurst

    by Siobhan O'Brien ...
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  • John Singer Sargent

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    by Daniel Coenn ...
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    Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers.This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of John Singer Sargent masterpieces, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for ... Read more

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