servants and neighbors. She created large, slightly blurred pictures that had a striking intimacy, especially compared with the small, formal portraits of the time. She posed members of her ...

When I started as a drama critic in 1980, I learned how little I knew about how the theater business actually works.

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Viewers can trace the rapid shifts in society that developed as people migrated from bucolic landscapes to the grittier streets of 19th-century ... inherent in portraits of servants at country ...

She also had a French motto that her servants wore on their uniforms ... ghosts at Hampton Court Palace until we get to the 19th century. They’re just not there in the 18th century record.

That clunky piece of hardware, once a modern marvel, stands quiet now, like the tiny adjoining bedroom, painted ocher, where he sometimes napped on a cot beneath early 19th-century Japanese prints ...

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These now-baffling ideas were widely held in the late 19th century, however, and not only by doctors and ... two nieces and three domestic servants in tow. The company’s offices remained downtown, but ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...