Neil Jeffares
@neiljeffares.bsky.social
Art historian
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I have already done so and posted the result!
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I have already done so and posted the result!
The curious thing is, once you know the answer, how easy it is to find further support.
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The curious thing is, once you know the answer, how easy it is to find further support.
Again nearly there, but didn't get to the Onze Lieve Vrouw registers for precise date etc.
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Again nearly there, but didn't get to the Onze Lieve Vrouw registers for precise date etc.
Only just seen your post - I'd alredy found that too: excellent article but didn't quite get to the conflation of Mrs Humble with Catharine de Ryck. Spelling variations are quite wide here, and most genealogy sites are poor at choosing variants.
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Only just seen your post - I'd alredy found that too: excellent article but didn't quite get to the conflation of Mrs Humble with Catharine de Ryck. Spelling variations are quite wide here, and most genealogy sites are poor at choosing variants.
The Christie's sale in the first post: www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
www.christies.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The Christie's sale in the first post: www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
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
She was the daughter of the painter Willem De Rijck (Antwerp 1648 - London 1699) by his first wife, so she was born between 1671 and 1677. (Vertue mentions him.)
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
She was the daughter of the painter Willem De Rijck (Antwerp 1648 - London 1699) by his first wife, so she was born between 1671 and 1677. (Vertue mentions him.)
For those of you who refuse to look at a tweet, this included: It's quite extraordinary that after two years @britishlibrary has still not recovered from the cyber attack
bl.libguides.com/currently-av...
And even more extraordinary that no one seems to care. When did you last see any media comment?
bl.libguides.com/currently-av...
And even more extraordinary that no one seems to care. When did you last see any media comment?
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
For those of you who refuse to look at a tweet, this included: It's quite extraordinary that after two years @britishlibrary has still not recovered from the cyber attack
bl.libguides.com/currently-av...
And even more extraordinary that no one seems to care. When did you last see any media comment?
bl.libguides.com/currently-av...
And even more extraordinary that no one seems to care. When did you last see any media comment?
Immigration (e.g. in form of NHS staff) is what has been holding this country together.
Labour's refusal to explain the benefits to the bigot voter is the disgrace that is tearing Labour apart.
Its majority should have given Starmer the stature of a statesman, not poodle-in-chief to Trump
Labour's refusal to explain the benefits to the bigot voter is the disgrace that is tearing Labour apart.
Its majority should have given Starmer the stature of a statesman, not poodle-in-chief to Trump
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Immigration (e.g. in form of NHS staff) is what has been holding this country together.
Labour's refusal to explain the benefits to the bigot voter is the disgrace that is tearing Labour apart.
Its majority should have given Starmer the stature of a statesman, not poodle-in-chief to Trump
Labour's refusal to explain the benefits to the bigot voter is the disgrace that is tearing Labour apart.
Its majority should have given Starmer the stature of a statesman, not poodle-in-chief to Trump
Her husband died of small pox in 1714. She was evidently a close friend of John Loeillet.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Her husband died of small pox in 1714. She was evidently a close friend of John Loeillet.
Indeed that is the distinction I agree with.
And when I've read a book I can often not remember if I did so from a physical or e-copy. But I always remember if I'd heard it as a sound file (and distractingly the actor's name reading it too...)
And when I've read a book I can often not remember if I did so from a physical or e-copy. But I always remember if I'd heard it as a sound file (and distractingly the actor's name reading it too...)
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Indeed that is the distinction I agree with.
And when I've read a book I can often not remember if I did so from a physical or e-copy. But I always remember if I'd heard it as a sound file (and distractingly the actor's name reading it too...)
And when I've read a book I can often not remember if I did so from a physical or e-copy. But I always remember if I'd heard it as a sound file (and distractingly the actor's name reading it too...)
An e-book is a document such as a pdf and has to be read, visually; an audiobook is a sound recording and has to be listened to, aurally. Please don't call sound recordings e-books are we'll all need different words!
(Ignore the clever apps on some devices that can produce sound from a pdf.)
(Ignore the clever apps on some devices that can produce sound from a pdf.)
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
An e-book is a document such as a pdf and has to be read, visually; an audiobook is a sound recording and has to be listened to, aurally. Please don't call sound recordings e-books are we'll all need different words!
(Ignore the clever apps on some devices that can produce sound from a pdf.)
(Ignore the clever apps on some devices that can produce sound from a pdf.)
He probably opposes assisted dying too, without seeing the irony
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
He probably opposes assisted dying too, without seeing the irony