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Title: To the Painter

Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)

Attribution: Peter Pinnell

Date(s): 175- or 176- ?

Manuscript: Lt 104

Contents: Lines addressed to a painter on the following theme: that art, however expert, can never compete with representations in nature

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The Paris Painter : an Etruscan vase-painter

Hannestad, Lise; Paris Painter

1974

Translated from Danish by Mette Moltesen.

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Subjects for painters

Pindar, Peter (1738-1819)

1789

In verse.

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Poems by a painter

Paton, Sir J Noël (1821-1901)

1861

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Action painters

c.1960

Undated handwritten and typwritten lecture notes on action painters by Maurice de Sausmarez, with a typewritten list of slides.

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A serious painter

c. 1940

Press cutting from an unidentified newspaper [possibly the Manchester Guardian] titled 'A serious painter' by the art critic Eric Newton, reviewing the first solo exhibition of work by Rodrigo Moyniha...

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The Fauvist painters

Duthuit, Georges (1891-1973)

1950

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Title: Advice to a painter

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1697

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Outspoken scurrilous satire on William III, his supporters and ministers, and

members of parliament, attacking the corruption of the system; in the form of

advice to a painter

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Title: Advice to a painter

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1697

Manuscript: Lt q 11

Contents: Outspoken scurrilous satire on William III, his ministers, and members of

Parliament, attacking their corruption; in the form of advice to a painter

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The painter's object

Evans, Myfanwy

1937

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Modern painters (v.1)

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

1896

Re-arranged in two volumes, and revised by the author.

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Painters of the Bauhaus

Grohmann, Will (1887-1968); Bauhaus; Marlborough New London Gallery; Marlborough Fine Art Ltd

[1962]

Catalogue of an exhibition held March-April, 1962, at Marlborough Fine Art ltd., London, and the Marlborough New London Gallery. Essay "The painters of the Bauhaus 1919-33", by Will Grohmann. Incl...

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