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Duke of Wellington by Rembrandt Peale

Thomas Lawrence was a child prodigy; from the age of 11 he supported his family by making pastel drawings of the fashionable elite who spent the season in Bath. The next step for an aspiring young artist was to learn how to paint in oils and Lawrence taught himself by doing self-portraits. He learned fast. The first painting in this exhibition of sumptuous portraits shows a diffident 19-year-old sitting sideways and glancing nervously towards us (pictured below right), as though fearful that…

Warning: If you cannot accept male wearing female dress, please don't open it!! "–OH MY GOD. Wellington as That Dame in the Red Dress. He w... Arthur Wellesley_Cross Dress

Duke of Wellington (Christopher Plummer)

There are many hypotheses regarding history of the domestication of the horse. Horses first appeared in Paleolithic cave art around 30,000 BC. These were wild horses that were hunted for their meat. However, it is disputed exactly how and when the horse first became domesticated.

Ending in 1815 with the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars changed forever the map of Europe.

Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Alfred d'Orsay

I will fully admit that my love of Christopher Plummer stems 100% from his Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. The guy is dapper as all get out, and I love the cranky hardline character who is…

Explore the Tower of London’s early years as a formidable fortress and discover why it has been both feared and revered.

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