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Ear today, corn tomorrow

Grant Wood, Young Corn, 1931, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

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Just passion by

Nevizade Atayi, Two Men Caught in Bed Together, 1721, The Walters Art Museum

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With surprise open

Frederic Stanley, Costume Surprise, The Saturday Evening Post, February 12, 1921

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I’ve bird about you

Gottfried Lindauer, Portrait of Pare Watene, 1878, Auckland Art Gallery

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Pare Watana (also known as Pare Watene) of Ngāti Maru, was famous for her beauty. Her chiefly status is confirmed by the rare huia (an extinct species of New Zealand wattlebird) feathers in her hair and her mere pounamu (a short, broad-bladed weapon made from greenstone).

Oh why, oh Mai?

Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Mai, c 1776, National Portrait Gallery and The Getty

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Mai, also known as Omai, (ca. 1753-1779) was a native of Raiatea, an island now part of French Polynesia. He travelled from Tahiti to England with Captain James Cook in 1773-1774, becoming the first Pacific Islander to visit England. Mai spent two years in London, where he was much admired within London high society. Renowned for his charm, quick wit and exotic good looks, he quickly became a favourite of the aristocratic elite. He returned to his homeland in 1777 and died there two years later, possibly from an infectious disease.

I made you book

Lilla Cabot Perry, The Picturebook, between 1848–1933, Private collection

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So, flower you doing?

Isabella McHutcheson Sinclair, Sesbania Tomentosa (Oahu riverhemp), Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands, 1885, National Agricultural Library

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Isabella McHutcheson Sinclair (1842-1900) was a Scottish born botanist, author and botanical illustrator. Her best known work is the 1885 book Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian islands, the first book published with colour images of Hawaiian flowering plants.

Happy haunting

Amrita Sher-Gil, The Merry Cemetery, 1939, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

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Personal proper tea

Lilian Westcott Hale, A Cup of Tea, 1909, for Collier’s magazine

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You hive to bee real

Folio 63 - Bees, Aberdeen Bestiary, 12th century, University of Aberdeen

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The uncanny Saleh

Attributed to Friedrich Carl Albert Schreuel, Portrait of Raden Saleh, Circa 1840, Rijksmuseum

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Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (c. 1811-1880) was a pioneering Romantic painter from the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) of Arab-Javanese ethnicity.

It’s bound to happen

Isidro Arceo or Arzeo, Portrait of Urbana David y Mendoza, 1876. National Museum of Fine Arts (Manila)

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In a world of convert

Godfrey Kneller, The Chinese Convert, 1687, The Royal Collection

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Michael Alphonsus Shen Fu-Tsung (c. 1658-1691), was a Chinese convert to Christianity who was brought to Europe by the Flemish Jesuit priest Philippe Couplet. The painting was ordered by King James II when he met Shen Fu-Tsung during his visit to England in 1685. The king was so delighted by this visit that he commissioned the portrait, and had it hung in his bedroom.