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Scottish Portraits as Biography : David Eustace on Photography as Portraiture
Episode 4, Scottish Portraits as Biography : David Eustace on Photography as Portraiture
At sixteen David Eustace was a naval rating on a mine sweeper in the North Sea, next he served as a prison officer at Barlinnie gaol. Discover how he went on to become one of the most renowned portrait photographers in the UK and America, numbering as his subjects Sophia Loren, Paul Macartney and dandy artist, John Byrne. David’s story, as told to the Boswell Book Festival, is a profound and moving self-portrait that examines the nature of his art, celebrity and the scope of photography as a medium of portraiture.
At sixteen David Eustace was a naval rating on a mine sweeper in the North Sea, next he served as a prison officer at Barlinnie gaol. Discover how he went on to become one of the most renowned portrait photographers in the UK and America, numbering as his subjects Sophia Loren, Paul Macartney and dandy artist, John Byrne. David’s story, as told to the Boswell Book Festival, is a profound and moving self-portrait that examines the nature of his art, celebrity and the scope of photography as a medium of portraiture.
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Scottish Portraits as Biography : Pioneer Scottish Women Artists
Просмотров 1153 года назад
Episode 3 Scottish Portraits as Biography : Pioneer Scottish Women Artists James Knox, director of the Fleming Collection, explores the careers of two pioneering Scottish women artists. The first is Phoebe Anna Traquair, who in the 1880s and 1890s, became one of the leaders of the Celtic Revival in Scotland, as well as one of Edinburgh’s most prominent artists, spanning mural painting, design a...
Boswell Diary & Journal Readings with Bill Paterson
Просмотров 933 года назад
The much-loved Scottish actor known to many through his recent roles in Shetland, Fleabag, Guilt and Rebecca as well as through his narration of numerous TV and radio programmes including the reading of his own classic childhood memoir Tales from the Back Green, will be reading excerpts from James Boswell’s books and journals. When the first volume of Boswell’s Journals, the London Journal 1762...
Scottish Portraits as Biography: Henry Raeburn - a Portrait of the Enlightenment
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Episode 2 Scottish Portraits as Biography: Henry Raeburn - a Portrait of the Enlightenment When James Holloway, director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, heard about a previously unknown portrait by Henry Raeburn for sale at an unlikely auction house in London, he was intrigued. The subject was the architect, James Gillespie Graham, responsible for some of the grandest classical archi...
Scottish Portrait as Biography : Scottish Portrait Painting after the Reformation
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Episode 1 Scottish Portrait as Biography : Scottish Portrait Painting after the Reformation James Knox, director of the Fleming Collection and James Holloway, previously director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, consider two seventeenth century portraits of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce by the artist George Jamesone, the first Scottish-born artist to...
Festival Plus+ Presents Dr Gordon Turnbull and The Life of Boswell
Просмотров 2163 года назад
The great biographer and diarist James Boswell lies in his eternal resting place, with his immediate family members, in the ancestral tomb at Auchinleck. Surrounding him in the graveyard lie many of the Ayrshire folk of his time, immortalised by mention in his marvellous diaries and letters. Gordon Turnbull, head of the Yale Boswell Editions, notes that in this very special place, we remember n...
To the owner of Wallace painting. If you want a copy of the original catalog sale from 1971 of the painting, let me know. My father-in-law (John W. Costin) had 10 of the paintings from the series and original sale catalog. Steve Terranova. North Carolina.
Hi, James is interested in your calatog. Please can you go to the Boswell Book Festival webstie and use the contact form and we can arrange to get you in contact with him. Thank you Boswell Book Festival www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk/contact
@@boswellfestivalplus just responded on site. Best Steve Terranova
A very interesting talk . I am interested in photography and found David’s talk inspirational. Thank you , David !