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26 mar 2024 · Galahad, the pure knight in Arthurian romance, son of Lancelot du Lac and Elaine (daughter of Pelles), who achieved the vision of God through the Holy Grail. In the first romance treatments of the Grail story (e.g., Chrétien de Troyes’s 12th-century Conte du Graal), Perceval was the Grail hero. But.
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3 giorni fa · Hall was a finalist for the Archibald Prize in 1976 with her portrait of her husband, John Perceval. Hall is considered the last remaining figurative expressionist from the circle of John and Sunday Reed at Heide. She has been described as painting more than the portrait of someone, she paints their souls.
3 giorni fa · Sir John Houblon, elected in 1689; served the office of sheriff in 1690, and that of lord-mayor in 1696. Sir Thomas Scawen, elected in 1711; fined for sheriff before his election, and being discharged from ever serving that office by common-council, was not eligible to that of lord mayor.
2 giorni fa · Percivall Pott (6 January 1714, in London – 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps' carcinoma. Many diseases are his namesake including Pott's fracture, Pott's disease of the spine, and ...
4 giorni fa · Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700. 1502. Henry Kebyll. He gave £1,000 for the rebuilding of St. Mary's Aldermary Church, where he was afterwards buried, but 'his bones were unkindly cast up' (Stow, i., 253). Two later Lord Mayors, Sir William Laxton (1544–5) and Sir Thomas Lodge (1562–3) were buried in his vault. 1504.
6 giorni fa · JOHN PERCEVAL, (1923 - 2000), Scarecrow in the Wheatfield Watching the Sun go Down, 1988, oil on canvas, 60 x 101 cm. (23.6 x 39.7 in.), frame: 73 x 103 x 4 cm. (28.7 x 40.5 x 1.5 in.) 5d 11h 6m left to bid. Estimate: A$20,000 - A$30,000. Starting Bid: A$10,000. (0 Bids)
3 giorni fa · Survey of London Monograph 15, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street.Originally published by Guild & School of Handicraft, London, 1944. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
