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Foxley Hall, Bramshill

Here's an article I found: BBC article about Foxley Hall. --108.45.72.196 (talk) 17:45, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I made a half-hearted effort to find out more about the history of Foxley Hall and didn't discover anything. It may be like trying to find out about a building on the CIA campus here in northern Virginia—the info just isn't public info. --108.45.72.196 (talk) 15:54, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The building seems to be in the style of some government buildings built to resist car bomb attacks- the County Court building in Leicester has miniature glacis and "ditch". Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:41, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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This. [1] Hafspajen (talk) 07:12, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Roslin

Thanks for working on it, Xanthomelanoussprog. You know, this article wasn't much [2] for about two days ago. Do you think it could be possible to nominate as a DYK, as an expanded article? Well just an idea. Maybe it is not possible... Hafspajen (talk) 11:17, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! Interesting artist, who I've never heard of! I've thought and thought, and I can't think of a DYK hook yet. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 15:43, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Well - did you know =  :- that court painter Roslin self portrait has the Swedish king in the background. :-than court painter Roslin was from the begining studying to naval draughtsman,  :- that his wife was also an artist? :- that his wife was was denied to him from the begining because he was lutheran.. (that part is from the wifes article, but can be added) ... and so on. Some of it might work? Hafspajen (talk) 17:48, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
DYK... that the painter Roslin turned down an offer from Catherine the Great? Otherwise I'm stumped- the double portrait with his wife seems to have possibilities, but for the life of me I can't express anything simply. Maybe it's the first time in history that someone did an oil painting of someone doing a pastel drawing. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:54, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
DYK that the painter Roslin turned down an offer from Catherine the Great? sounds sexy enough,... If it's the first time in history that someone did an oil painting of someone doing a pastel drawing ... drawing... painting... well. That I an not soooo sure about that. Hafspajen (talk) 23:23, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
How about [3] As a token of the resulting close friendship, Roslin painted the portrait of himself and his wife, Marie Suzanne Giroust, at the easel working on a pastel of Peill. The painting was produced toward the end of Peill’s visit. The portrait within the portrait has never been found, but several copies exist of an earlier version produced by Marie Suzanne Giroust the previous year. The gold box housing the miniature portrait that Roslin is pointing at is part of the rebus-like nature of the painting and may have been a lavish farewell gift from Peill. The inscription on the frame, Loin et près (“Far away and [yet] close”), makes it clear that the portrait was indeed a token of friendship. Peill most likely acquired the painting that same year or in the years that immediately followed. Shortly after his return to Sweden, he married Anna Johanna Grill the younger, daughter of the late Claes Grill the elder, former director of the Swedish East India Company. The evidence suggests that the younger woman portrayed in miniature on the gold box in the painting is Miss Grill, while the older woman is probably her mother, Anna Johanna the elder.

Hafspajen (talk) 07:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Well, I've never seen a 3D painting that hasn't been called a sculpture...  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:50, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I think NR 1 suggestion, with the King will be just fine. Hafspajen (talk) 08:18, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Seems alright to me. The way Peill is looking out of that painting at the observer is quite disturbing. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 13:29, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, right, go ahead and nominate it then .Hafspajen (talk) 13:37, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This is an automated reply. Xanthomelanoussprog is out of the office at the moment. Well out of the office. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:21, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Are you really?? Hafspajen (talk) 21:08, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
.This expanding started 9 febr See here.If it is going to be nominated, it has to be nominated soon... Hafspajen (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Are you going to nominate it? I re-read it a couple of times but still can't think of a decent hook.

Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:09, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • I would love too, but I never succed with that, and make a mess of it. Don't know how. Hafspajen (talk) 09:41, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, is worth adding. But not tourist - traveler. Maybe "tourist" too much of a neologism. Hafspajen (talk) 14:48, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good, but overcritical on term "tourist". Word is wekll-referenced in 18th century sources.Arildnordby (talk) 23:24, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy Valentine Day
Well. ...................................................................................................... Hafspajen (talk) 05:14, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Alexander Roslin