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William McLaren - Muses & The Beau Monde
William McLaren, born in Ferniegair, Hamilton, 1923, was a Scottish Illustrator. McLaren grew up in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland but...

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Jul 29, 20204 min read


Raymond Voinquel - Muses & The Beau Monde
Raymond Voinquel, born 11 January 1912 in Fraize (Vosges), was a French still photographer who specialised in portraits, working on...

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Jul 15, 20205 min read


William Bruce Ellis Ranken - Muses & The Beau Monde
Born in 1881, William Bruce Ellis Ranken was a Scottish artist and Edwardian Aesthete. He had an idyllic childhood living in vast estates...

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Jul 8, 20203 min read


Barbara Ker-Seymer - Muses & The Beau Monde
The sharply radical portraitist of a "new English avant-garde." Barbara Marcia Ker-Seymer, born in Kensington 20 January 1905, was a...

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May 20, 20202 min read


Rex Whistler - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Jade green jerseys and scarves (I hope you don't mind) and bright magenta..." Reginald John "Rex" Whistler was a British artist,...

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Jan 29, 20206 min read


Stephen Tennant - Muses & The Beau Monde
"Stephen Tennant is the most sparkling talker who ever comes to my house, and perhaps the most amusing." "Stephen Tennant was the most...

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Jan 22, 20206 min read


Cecil Beaton - Muses & The Beau Monde
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE, born 14 January 1904, was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and...

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Jan 15, 20202 min read
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