Bryan Gallery

Wedding of Diana Mitford and Bryan Guinness

Group wedding photograph showing the bride, Mrs Bryan Guinness, formerly Miss Diana Freeman Mitford, with eleven bridesmaids. From left, Miss Diana Churchill, Miss Mercer-Nairne, the Hon. Nancy Mitford, the Bride, the Hon. Unity Mitford, Miss Rosemary Mitford (cousin), Miss Rosalie Willoughby and Miss Oonagh Guinness; and , in front, Lady Jean Ogilvy, Miss Grania Guinness, Lady Patricia Guinness and Lady Brigid Guinness. According to The Sketch, the child attendants wore long-skired frocks of cream tulle with gold tissue bodices and the grown-up bridesmaids had parchment coloured skirts.
1929

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

The Beggars Opera, Aldeburgh Festival 1963

English Opera Group production of The Beggar's Opera (John Gay, in Britten's realization) at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, 20 June 1963. Act III, near end; at Newgate Gaol. Macheath (Peter Pears) centre background; left of lower steps, Lockit (Bryan Drake) and Lucy (Heather Harper); in right foreground Polly (Janet Baker) is restrained by Mrs Peachum (Anna Pollak) and Peachum (Harold Blackburn) Date: 1963

© Walter Rawlings/Mary Evans Picture Library

Sir Guy de Bryan, Baron Bryan, died 1391

Sir Guy de Bryan, Baron Bryan, died 1391. In suit of armour with chainmail camail attached to helmet. From his grave effigy in Tewkesbury Abbey, England. With two examples of Italian knights of the late 14th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C.R. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

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