‘oxford is like a fabulously interesting railway station,” david kirke tells me over lunch, “with fascinating people coming and going all the time.” we had met at a pub across the street from the city’s famous blackwell’s bookstore where kirke was holding court with a group that ...
1864, oil on canvas); The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet) (1866, oil on canvas); Masked Ball at the Opera (1873, oil on canvas); The Railway (1873, oil on canvas); Plum Brandy (c. 1877, oil on canvas); drawings, numerous engravings Washington, DC (Phillips Collection): Spanish...