According to Julia Frankau's 1906 book "Eighteenth century colour prints : an essay on certain stipple engravers & their work in colour":...
The engraver is not FR Smith but JR (John Raphael) Smith: http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/16538 The ebay link describes it as...
Google books brings up a couple of results for a Trendé furniture company in High Point, North Carolina, in the 1950s.
The "Marees-Gesellschaft" - an imprint of R Piper of Munich. https://www.flickr.com/photos/zen00zero/11571650165
It was by no means only students who made copies. An 1860 guide to the studios of Rome lists at least 16 professional copyists, some, but not...
Quite a lot about the firm here: https://repository.library.csuci.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.3/191704/LV%20Vol%203%20No%208~.txt?sequence=2 They...
But if you look up "Lilly White & Company" you will find a Hong Kong company established in 1955. A book search gives the following snippet from...
Sorry, my mistake: it's designed by Ivor Abrahams, and made at Nazeing glass works in 1994....
Ivon Hitchens. But apart from one auction listing I can't find any mention of him designing glass, so it's a bit puzzling....
Probably Rudolf H Buenz: "Buenz first worked in the studio of Otto Heinigke, then at the Brink's studio. He worked briefly in Philadelphia and...
With four other items, £30. https://denhams.com/antique-auction/august-2016-03/captain-eric-winkle-brown
In case you're still interested: St John's Church at Adel, near Leeds. Perhaps painted during the restoration of 1879: the old door shown in the...
The cylinder vase - very new I imagine - is from Gallery Thea in Southwold.
The NT vase is designed by Nicola Wiehahn: http://www.nicolawiehahn.com/cv.html
The "Granny" is in the style of a sculptor called Katherina Kaslatter - can't find much about her online, though there are plenty of examples of...
Its clearly a copy - though not made directly from the original - of Sassoferrato's "Mater Dolorosa"....
There's a copy of the litho on Ebay at the moment. Unframed and not in the best condition, it's buy it now price is $15. Usefully the seller...
Good work; thank you all. Very positive symbolism, and even as a believer in nothing in particular I can live with all that. I hadn't thought of...
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