Carlile Vernon
@markgray.bsky.social
Liberal centrist. 18th/19thc art collector/researcher. Lots of art.
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This online selling exhibition from #FineArtSociety is worth a look - especially that Melville.
www.thefineartsociety.com/exhibitions/...
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Works on Paper | 13 February - 21 March 2026
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February 17, 2026 at 11:12 AM
This online selling exhibition from #FineArtSociety is worth a look - especially that Melville.
www.thefineartsociety.com/exhibitions/...
www.thefineartsociety.com/exhibitions/...
On #LInkedIn @ox.ac.uk 's #SaidBusinessSchool sent me this - an object lesson in how *not* to market your education offer. 1. I'm retired, over 60 2. Given no option but one 3. No interest in interaction with me 4. No link for further information to give recipient control over initiation. Hopeless!
February 15, 2026 at 10:21 AM
On #LInkedIn @ox.ac.uk 's #SaidBusinessSchool sent me this - an object lesson in how *not* to market your education offer. 1. I'm retired, over 60 2. Given no option but one 3. No interest in interaction with me 4. No link for further information to give recipient control over initiation. Hopeless!
Morning after the #ValentinesDay dinner before, and the tell-tale remnants of #mussel guzzling excess. (Try mussels in cream, leek, whisky!) Main course of monkfish in ginger was held off for today, the dessert wolfed down with G&Ts. Thank you, my bungo, for a lovely evening 💝💋.
February 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Morning after the #ValentinesDay dinner before, and the tell-tale remnants of #mussel guzzling excess. (Try mussels in cream, leek, whisky!) Main course of monkfish in ginger was held off for today, the dessert wolfed down with G&Ts. Thank you, my bungo, for a lovely evening 💝💋.
#Putin is unusually cruel, sinister and evil.
Who knew. eh?
Stop playing with this monster and #Russia. Massive #sanctions now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who knew. eh?
Stop playing with this monster and #Russia. Massive #sanctions now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using toxin from dart frog, UK says
There is no innocent explanation for the toxin being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, Foreign Office says.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
#Putin is unusually cruel, sinister and evil.
Who knew. eh?
Stop playing with this monster and #Russia. Massive #sanctions now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who knew. eh?
Stop playing with this monster and #Russia. Massive #sanctions now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
At last! Sanity! Had it not occurred to #KeirStarmer that things hadn't exactly been tickety-boo for the last year?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Morgan McSweeney: Who is Sir Keir Starmer's ex-chief of staff?
McSweeney, long considered instrumental to the rise of the PM, derived his power and influence from his track record as a political strategist.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 6:04 PM
At last! Sanity! Had it not occurred to #KeirStarmer that things hadn't exactly been tickety-boo for the last year?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Struggling to identify the #artist who made this #20thcentury #etching. British, framed in a 1930s frame and signed 'DS 36'. Ideas welcomed!
February 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Struggling to identify the #artist who made this #20thcentury #etching. British, framed in a 1930s frame and signed 'DS 36'. Ideas welcomed!
Watching #AnthonyHopkins in #OneLife, having never thought to hear echoes from the late 1930s in our own times - but here we are with #ICE in the US and a whole cast of little Hitlers around the world intending to copy them.
February 7, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Watching #AnthonyHopkins in #OneLife, having never thought to hear echoes from the late 1930s in our own times - but here we are with #ICE in the US and a whole cast of little Hitlers around the world intending to copy them.
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
An extraordinary collection - and a genuinely personal aesthetic at the heart of it. That Claude Lovat Fraser, those G F. Watts drawings...all jewels. Some collectors are truly creative in assembling their collections, like this chap.
www.olympiaauctions.com/auction/sear...
www.olympiaauctions.com/auction/sear...
The Estate of John Russell Taylor: Author, Critic, Collector
Auction Search. Browse our upcoming auctions using our interactive sale calendar ; Sale Results. View our latest sales results and find out how to buy and sell ...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:20 AM
An extraordinary collection - and a genuinely personal aesthetic at the heart of it. That Claude Lovat Fraser, those G F. Watts drawings...all jewels. Some collectors are truly creative in assembling their collections, like this chap.
www.olympiaauctions.com/auction/sear...
www.olympiaauctions.com/auction/sear...
Art at $23m per foot...
BBC News - Newly discovered Michelangelo foot sketch sells for £16.9m
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Newly discovered Michelangelo foot sketch sells for £16.9m
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Newly discovered Michelangelo foot sketch sells for £16.9m
Experts at Christie's say it is a foot sketch of the Libyan Sibyl, which was later painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Art at $23m per foot...
BBC News - Newly discovered Michelangelo foot sketch sells for £16.9m
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Newly discovered Michelangelo foot sketch sells for £16.9m
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gambling again? They never learn. (Seen near Runfold Nature Reserve).
February 2, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Gambling again? They never learn. (Seen near Runfold Nature Reserve).
Something's very wrong in the #ChurchOfEngland (and no I don't mean women bishops, which is absolutely right). But Bishops judging each other simply cannot be right. Here there is even an interest in the judgement! What's that old tag, 'to be rather than to seem'?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Church drops complaint about new Archbishop's handling of abuse case
No further action will be taken over the complaint first made in 2020 against Dame Sarah Mullally.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Something's very wrong in the #ChurchOfEngland (and no I don't mean women bishops, which is absolutely right). But Bishops judging each other simply cannot be right. Here there is even an interest in the judgement! What's that old tag, 'to be rather than to seem'?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 25, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I'd not seen this 1960s black and white drama documentary before. It's brilliant. It captures the brutality, grimness and ugliness of 18th century armies and the overwhelming disaster for the clans that was #Culloden. The 'actors' are ordinary folk from #Inverness.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Culloden
Historical documentary about the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Written and directed by Peter Watkins, it is presented as a news report from the battlefield.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I'd not seen this 1960s black and white drama documentary before. It's brilliant. It captures the brutality, grimness and ugliness of 18th century armies and the overwhelming disaster for the clans that was #Culloden. The 'actors' are ordinary folk from #Inverness.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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TRUMP: I invented electricity. did it one day, turned on a lamp and a scientist gasped and said wow how did you do that and I said I just flicked a switch and he started crying and saying "sir you've just saved Africa from ebola"
BBC NEWS: a sober reflection on healthcare from the President
BBC NEWS: a sober reflection on healthcare from the President
January 21, 2026 at 2:25 PM
TRUMP: I invented electricity. did it one day, turned on a lamp and a scientist gasped and said wow how did you do that and I said I just flicked a switch and he started crying and saying "sir you've just saved Africa from ebola"
BBC NEWS: a sober reflection on healthcare from the President
BBC NEWS: a sober reflection on healthcare from the President
It's October 1793 and the King of #Denmark is defending the rights of his country in the face of #GeorgeIII trying to strong-arm him out of neutrality.
I can't think why this struck a chord today. (London Chronicle, October 12th 1793).
#18thc #18thcentury
I can't think why this struck a chord today. (London Chronicle, October 12th 1793).
#18thc #18thcentury
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
It's October 1793 and the King of #Denmark is defending the rights of his country in the face of #GeorgeIII trying to strong-arm him out of neutrality.
I can't think why this struck a chord today. (London Chronicle, October 12th 1793).
#18thc #18thcentury
I can't think why this struck a chord today. (London Chronicle, October 12th 1793).
#18thc #18thcentury
#Medievalism in the #18thcentury: #QueenAnne (the last regular 'Monarch's Touch' adherent) calls off applications to receive The Touch (London Gazette May 29th 1707). #18c
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
#Medievalism in the #18thcentury: #QueenAnne (the last regular 'Monarch's Touch' adherent) calls off applications to receive The Touch (London Gazette May 29th 1707). #18c
Why is the #UNSecurityCouncil not in session? Why is the #UN General Assembly no censuring the US for threats to #Greenland? And why are we all acting as if this orange pillock's actions are normal?
January 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Why is the #UNSecurityCouncil not in session? Why is the #UN General Assembly no censuring the US for threats to #Greenland? And why are we all acting as if this orange pillock's actions are normal?
Lots of 'Burneyana', as it were, coming up for sale at Mallams on Oxford this month. #FannyBurney fans will see the admiration for their ancestor of family members in 1902.
#18thc #18thcentury
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#18thc #18thcentury
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Mallams | The Oxford Library Sale
Bid Live at Mallams's The Oxford Library Sale auction
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January 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Lots of 'Burneyana', as it were, coming up for sale at Mallams on Oxford this month. #FannyBurney fans will see the admiration for their ancestor of family members in 1902.
#18thc #18thcentury
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#18thc #18thcentury
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Light blue = #Greenland on the Mercator projection, or what #Trump and #MAGA *thinks* he's going to take.
Dark blue= the *actual* size of Greenland and what all that hot air is about.
A bit like the difference between Trump's grandiose claims to intelligence and the pathetic reality, in fact.
Dark blue= the *actual* size of Greenland and what all that hot air is about.
A bit like the difference between Trump's grandiose claims to intelligence and the pathetic reality, in fact.
January 10, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Light blue = #Greenland on the Mercator projection, or what #Trump and #MAGA *thinks* he's going to take.
Dark blue= the *actual* size of Greenland and what all that hot air is about.
A bit like the difference between Trump's grandiose claims to intelligence and the pathetic reality, in fact.
Dark blue= the *actual* size of Greenland and what all that hot air is about.
A bit like the difference between Trump's grandiose claims to intelligence and the pathetic reality, in fact.
#MincePies: better in January than December. Always.
January 8, 2026 at 9:22 PM
#MincePies: better in January than December. Always.
The #LucyWorsley Murder Club thing seems rather thin - supposition upon supposition (with a good smattering of modern day tut-tutting at Victorian morals) builds something that is called a 'case'. No worse than the innumerable 'X was Jack the Ripper' documentaries, possibly, but certainly no better.
January 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
The #LucyWorsley Murder Club thing seems rather thin - supposition upon supposition (with a good smattering of modern day tut-tutting at Victorian morals) builds something that is called a 'case'. No worse than the innumerable 'X was Jack the Ripper' documentaries, possibly, but certainly no better.
This delightful #watercolour is attributed to John Brompton Cuming (1772-1851), who entered the RA Schools in 1790.
#18thcentury
#18thcentury
January 4, 2026 at 10:22 PM
This delightful #watercolour is attributed to John Brompton Cuming (1772-1851), who entered the RA Schools in 1790.
#18thcentury
#18thcentury