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Daguerreotype portrait of two men, made 1855 by Robert H. Vance (American, 1825-1876).

Julien Renevier (1847 - 1907), ''À l'Atelier''.

Julien Renevier was a Swiss painter. Born into a wealthy and cultured family, he showed an early talent for drawing. Nevertheless, he went on to study theology at the Lausanne Academy, continuing his education in Berlin. But in 1872 he abandoned his studies at the Berlin Academy in order to devote himself fully to painting; he went on to complete his training in Munich. Then, in 1878, at the age of thirty-one, he left Munich for Italy. After visiting Venice, he settled in Rome, where he remained for eleven years, traveling regularly throughout Italy and France, with visits home to Switzerland. He exhibited frequently in his native country and also participated in the Paris Salons in 1883 and 1884, as well as in the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900. In 1889 he gave up his Roman studio and returned to Switzerland to care for his sick mother, but continued to exhibit. During the last twenty years of his life, he gradually abandoned painting in oils, turning instead to watercolor and pastel. He died of pneumonia at the age of fifty-nine.

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Károly Ferenczy (Hungarian 1862-1917), October, 1903, Oil on canvas

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Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (1852-1936)

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John Soane's Museum / Home. The World of Interiors, June 2023. Photo - Erdem Morahoglu

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Cover owl. Reptiles and birds. 1869.

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FMR Magazine Gen/Feb 1989. John Soane's Museum/Home. Photo by Massimo Listri

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Monday Motivation Owl

This stately wood-engraved Barn Owl is maintaining its vigilant watch over the Hunting Tower on the Derbyshire Dales historic Chatsworth Estate to keep it free of vermin despite being mobbed by smaller birds. The tower was designed by Elizabethan architect Robert Smythson and was built in 1582 for Bess of Hardwick. It stands on an escarpment 400 feet above Chatsworth House, on the edge of Stand Wood, and was used as a summer house for the ladies of the estate to observe the hunting activities in the parkland below. Today it has been restored and can be rented as a holiday cottage for vacationers where the barn owls stand watch nightly to keep pesky critters at bay.

This image is by English wood engraver John O’Connor (1913-2004) and appears in a retrospective of O’Connor’s work, People & Places, printed in 1999 by John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Herefordshire, England in an edition of 375 copies.

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