A Gentleman's Prospect

Life as I see it. By a midwesterner who enjoys beautiful places, fine clothes, excellent food and witty company. I don't claim ownership for any of these images. If you do, and would like anything removed please let me know.

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Autumm

Julia Berbecka

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(via TumbleOn)

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Self portrait, Albert Herter

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Self-portrait in Costume of Hamlet (1871), Albert Herter

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Self portrait, 1915, Rolf Armstrong

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New York: Portrait of artist Albert Herter, ca. 1910. 

Albert Herter (1871–1950) was an artist and painter. He was born in New York, New York, and studied in Paris and then in New York’s Art Students League. He had come from an artistic family; before Albert was born, his father, Christian Herter, and his father’s half-brother Gustave formed Herter Brothers, a prominent New York interior design and furnishings firm.

Albert Herter’s paintings include Young Girl, Garden of the Hesperides, and Still Life with Flowering Dogwood and Japanese Figurines; he was commissioned to execute many portrait paintings and he created a number of civic and private murals. He married fellow artist Adele McGinnis. Their son Christian Herter became a politician, serving as governor of Massachusetts and later as Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Portrait of a Russian Nobleman (D. C. Imboden), Albert Herter

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Reblogged from: ivyleagueboys

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Valentin Serov. Tsar Nicholas II. 1910

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The Sorrows of Gin.

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Chatsworth-today by johnb/Derbys/UK. on Flickr.

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Carved in the 17th century onto the stalls in the King’s College Chapel

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John, Count Capo d'Istria (1819), Sir Thomas Lawrence

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Georges Goursat dit Sem (1902), Giovanni Boldini

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thefoodogatemyhomework: Unbelievable sideboard vignette from Garden & Gun Magazine.

The home of Mary Doffermyre in Atlanta.

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Augustus John Henry Beaumont Paulet, 15th Marquess of Winchester (6 February 1858 - 11 December 1899)