Briton Rivière RA (14 August 1840 in London – 20 April 1920 in London) was well known for his animal paintings.
I'm a sucker for this sort of stuff so here's a thread with some of his work.
You're allowed to get wet eyes.
Requiescat (1888; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)
As you probably noticed, I've been slightly obsessed with Neanderthals lately so when this one popped up I jumped in.
It's an easy to watch documentary that starts with a nice reconstruction of how the bones in the Neanderthal were found.
Pretty soon the documentary starts explaining that the idea of the dumb cave dwelling savage is nonsense.
YES, that's exactly what I like to hear.
Go Neanderthals.
Humans really like thinking everybody who came before them was worse than they were.
I couldn't resist... I collect old photo albums, daily life during the 1920s-40s is one of my specialities and these pictures are just such a gold mine.
I have quite the collection!
Let's have a quick look at the lot I received today.
Thread;
Tiny album with a few loose photos thrown in as extra, very nice!
The flower card;
My dear little mother!
Flowers that May gives us
should tell my mother
what love feels and thinks.
Today and every day.
First album shows a family that really liked to do a lot of hiking in the mountains.
Can't help wondering how those kids got through the war.
These accounts that post nonsense (generally) do this just to get more followers & mentions.
This makes their account more valuable so they can then sell retweets, website traffic or the whole account itself.