Admired Gallery

The Amanohashidate admired by a Geisha

The Amanohashidate - located in Miyazu Bay in northern Kyoto Prefecture - a pine-clad promontory launching onto the sea - being admited by a geisha on a balcony. This view is one of the three Views of Japan - a canonical list attributed to scholar Hayashi Razan, who first listed them in 1643

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - Admiring Cornish Silver

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - Admiring Cornish Silver "...absolutely wonderful... beautiful..." - pieces made by Joanna Barnes, aged 24 of Marazion, Cornwall. Date: 1980s

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ANDREW BESLEY

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Arthur, 1st Marquess of Donegall

Arthur, 1st Marquess of Donegall 1739-99 (c.1780). Gainsborough, Thomas 1727-1788. During the eighteenth century full-length portraits were the most admired and expensive commissions as they posed the greatest artistic challenges. Gainsborough was a highly accomplished landscape painter, as well as a portraitist of great skill and sensitivity, and in this full-length portrait he has introduced a delicate, atmospheric landscape that serves to lighten the formal elegance of the sitter?s pose. Arthur, 1st Marquess of Donegall, was a member of the Chichester family, who had played a major role in the early history of Belfast. Date: 1780 (circa)

© National Museums NI / MARY EVANS