Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post

Post by zeristor » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 2:25 AM UTC

qingcharles wrote: post #14

When you're an expert at something and you spend all your days looking at these things, you can pick out remarkable details from nothing. Any regular person looking at the original photo (below) would have seen nothing! https://x.com/Warkslieutenant/status/1808884139585610231/pho... (it's the picture with the curved frame on the left)

Post by WD-42 » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 2:55 AM UTC

xeromal wrote: post #56

qingcharles wrote: post #49

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It's patriotic to have a picture of your royals in your home. You'd find pictures of The Royal Family in British homes, not so much now, but certainly photos of say Diana were fairly common in the 80s.

That makes sense. I don't think it's really popular here in the United States to have a president on your wall but I have seen pictures of them in restaurants especially if they frequented the establishment. It makes me curious about this specific example if the painter copied another painting of the king or he managed to somehow get time with the king in order to know what he looks like for the commission.

Post by Daz1 » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 2:56 AM UTC

ericfr11 wrote: post #62

Daz1 wrote: post #57

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That's called Colonial looting. They didn't ask anyone to steal from all the slaved African nations, and whatever war they won. And you're right, a lot of countries did the same: it doesn't make it right

Post by PhasmaFelis » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 3:35 AM UTC

wordofx wrote: post #47

throwup238 wrote: post #29

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By British rules if you can smuggle it out of the country, it's legally yours. That's how they filled the British Museum.

That’s such a dumb comment. Back when the British was taking items back to the UK. There were no rules or systems in place for this stuff. You could buy it, trade it, steal it. It didn’t matter. And the UK isn’t the only country to ever do this. Laws were created to resolve/fix/prevent things happening. You can’t blame people for shit that happened before someone decided it’s wrong.

Post by arrowsmith » Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 5:06 AM UTC

qingcharles wrote: post #48

arrowsmith wrote: post #17

Reminds me of the "lost" painting that was rediscovered via the movie Stuart Little : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Little_(film)#Lost_pain...

That's wild. Also wild that the set dresser paid $500 from the film's budget for a random piece of non-key set dressing like this.