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Elizabeth Countess of Toering-Jettenbach, pastel painting by Vera Stanley-Alder. Vera had a successful career as a portrait painter using both oil paints and pastels. [7] In 1923, for example, she exhibited portraits of Lady Douglas, Lady Poynter, and Princess Tatiana Wiazemsky (granddaughter of Harry Gordon Selfridge [8]) at the Lyceum club in Paris where she had a studio. [9]
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Overlooked No More is a recurring feature in the obituary section of The New York Times, which honors "remarkable people" whose deaths had been overlooked by editors of that section since its creation in 1851.
James Agee — A Death in the Family (initial publication assembled by David McDowell; alternate assembly later published by Michael Lofaro) Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Shira; Louisa May Alcott — A Long Fatal Love Chase; Horatio Alger — over thirty-five short novels after his death in 1899; Isaac Asimov — Forward the Foundation
Vera Spencer (1926 – 14 January 2021) was a British painter and textile designer, whose work has been described as constructivist and modernist. Her work is exhibited and preserved in several public collections, including the Arts Council, the Tate gallery. Art historian Herta Wescher was a keen collector of her work. [1]
Lynne Olson (born August 19, 1949) is an American author, historian and journalist. [1] She was born on August 19, 1953, and is married to Stanley Cloud, with whom she often writes. [2] In 1969 she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Arizona. [2] Before becoming a writer she worked for the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun. [3]