Neil Jeffares
@neiljeffares.bsky.social
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And here (just showing off, I know; forgive me) is the baptismal entry for Catherina De Rijck in Antwerp, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Zuid, 12 Nov 1671
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
And here (just showing off, I know; forgive me) is the baptismal entry for Catherina De Rijck in Antwerp, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Zuid, 12 Nov 1671
I'm surprised no one bothered to do the five minutes' research required to find Catherine Derryck, from an Antwerp family, married Thomas Humble in London in 1700, buried 26.xii.1724; will full of info
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November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm surprised no one bothered to do the five minutes' research required to find Catherine Derryck, from an Antwerp family, married Thomas Humble in London in 1700, buried 26.xii.1724; will full of info
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
Perronneau painted this couple one month after their marriage in Cestas
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November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Perronneau painted this couple one month after their marriage in Cestas
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My comment on the Telegraph article on the Bayeux tapestry:
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
September 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My comment on the Telegraph article on the Bayeux tapestry:
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
My letter in today's Financial Times
August 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My letter in today's Financial Times
Got some way to go to keep up with Putin
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Got some way to go to keep up with Putin
L'écriture du XIXe siècle peut être pire que celle du XVIIe. Un paléographe pourrait-il m'aider avec les acheteurs lors d'une vente aux enchères de 1863 ? J'ai la plupart des noms, mais je ne suis pas sûr de celui de la ligne 4, et je suis perplexe devant les lignes 2, 9=15 & 13
July 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
L'écriture du XIXe siècle peut être pire que celle du XVIIe. Un paléographe pourrait-il m'aider avec les acheteurs lors d'une vente aux enchères de 1863 ? J'ai la plupart des noms, mais je ne suis pas sûr de celui de la ligne 4, et je suis perplexe devant les lignes 2, 9=15 & 13
Anyway he didn't have it in 1764 when this far better portrait was done
May 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Anyway he didn't have it in 1764 when this far better portrait was done
Sorry for delay - rarely use Bluesky now
It's the Portuguese Order of Christ
It's the Portuguese Order of Christ
May 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Sorry for delay - rarely use Bluesky now
It's the Portuguese Order of Christ
It's the Portuguese Order of Christ
A new addition to La Tour scholarship (at least to the œuvres mentionnées in my cat. www.pastellists.com/Articles/LaT... at J.46.1312): le marquis de Berville, from a family portrayed by Rigaud, Rosalba and Nattier (www.pastellists.com/Genealogies/...), advertised in the Annonces & affiches 1778:
February 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A new addition to La Tour scholarship (at least to the œuvres mentionnées in my cat. www.pastellists.com/Articles/LaT... at J.46.1312): le marquis de Berville, from a family portrayed by Rigaud, Rosalba and Nattier (www.pastellists.com/Genealogies/...), advertised in the Annonces & affiches 1778:
Her signature, aged 65 and presumably ill enough to want to make her will
January 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Her signature, aged 65 and presumably ill enough to want to make her will
Santerre's pupil in this 1704 portrait (numerous versions and print), Marguerite (not Genevieve - Dezallier's error) Blanchot, copied his work in pastel; her dates and bio details now discovered
www.pastellists.com/Articles/Bla...
www.pastellists.com/Articles/Bla...
January 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Santerre's pupil in this 1704 portrait (numerous versions and print), Marguerite (not Genevieve - Dezallier's error) Blanchot, copied his work in pastel; her dates and bio details now discovered
www.pastellists.com/Articles/Bla...
www.pastellists.com/Articles/Bla...
Yet another copy of La Tour's pastel of Charles Edward Stuart, the chivalric ribbons painted out ineptly. Nothing to do with Doyen
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January 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Yet another copy of La Tour's pastel of Charles Edward Stuart, the chivalric ribbons painted out ineptly. Nothing to do with Doyen
www.proantic.com/1478429-gabr...
www.proantic.com/1478429-gabr...
These pastels J.259.161 & J.259.162 stolen from the Rothschild collection by the ERR are not by Rosalba, nor by Vigée Le Brun as I once thought but by her greatly underestimated teacher Pierre Davesne
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January 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
These pastels J.259.161 & J.259.162 stolen from the Rothschild collection by the ERR are not by Rosalba, nor by Vigée Le Brun as I once thought but by her greatly underestimated teacher Pierre Davesne
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www.pastellists.com/Articles/Dav...
Earliest use of exact phrase I can find is article in The Listener 21 May 1987. Obviously by then John Cole didn't feel need to explain
January 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Earliest use of exact phrase I can find is article in The Listener 21 May 1987. Obviously by then John Cole didn't feel need to explain
Might be worth pursuing but a real George Fotheringham was married so a Sarah, not a Marie Magdelaine, so this may be a coincidence. In any case surely XIXe, not 18th c
January 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Might be worth pursuing but a real George Fotheringham was married so a Sarah, not a Marie Magdelaine, so this may be a coincidence. In any case surely XIXe, not 18th c
Here is J-B-A Gautier-Dagoty at his brother's wedding in 1779, described as a chevalier de l'Ordre de Limburg. Was it conferred on him by Joseph II for the portraits of the Dauphine? Only Jallut 1955 seems to mention it, somewhat obliquely
January 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Here is J-B-A Gautier-Dagoty at his brother's wedding in 1779, described as a chevalier de l'Ordre de Limburg. Was it conferred on him by Joseph II for the portraits of the Dauphine? Only Jallut 1955 seems to mention it, somewhat obliquely
I mention a number of versions/copies etc in my review
neiljeffares.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/t...
at cat. no. 56
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at cat. no. 56
January 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I mention a number of versions/copies etc in my review
neiljeffares.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/t...
at cat. no. 56
neiljeffares.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/t...
at cat. no. 56
Lunch with Anthony Blinken @financialtimes.com today: I wouldn't have framed the question thus, but I probably wouldn't have got a longer answer
January 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Lunch with Anthony Blinken @financialtimes.com today: I wouldn't have framed the question thus, but I probably wouldn't have got a longer answer
It might be a courtesy to credit the artist. But if you follow the link, it takes you to a page that tells you how far behind AI still is:
December 17, 2024 at 8:20 AM
It might be a courtesy to credit the artist. But if you follow the link, it takes you to a page that tells you how far behind AI still is:
There is even more detail in Russell's 1805 engraving of the lunar planisphere, again rotated to allow comparison with the Patigny:
December 11, 2024 at 6:41 PM
There is even more detail in Russell's 1805 engraving of the lunar planisphere, again rotated to allow comparison with the Patigny: