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Ten years ago this month, Bishop Auckland was in uproar as the Church Commissioners tried to sell the town’s treasures. Then a multi-millionaire philanthropist stepped in… “WHAT I saw was that Bishop Auckland, which I didn’t really know even though I was brought up 30 miles away, had an extraordinary legacy,” says Jonathan Ruffer, via the wonders of Zoom. “You’ve got Emperor Constantine at Binchester – he was in York in 306, so there are chances that he was regularly at Binchester, and we’re now searching for a pair of pyjamas with his initials on. “That set of Zurbarans is the best set of pictures that he did, and they are in the cradle of Christianity.
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Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Pinkie (1794)
Hovering on the threshold of adulthood, this 11-year-old girl also seems to hover above the landscape in which she is placed. Her filmy skirts and satin ribbons fly up in the brisk wind that sets the clouds racing in the vast sky behind her. This image seizes the imagination with its energy, brilliance, and romance. As such, it is typical of the work of its creator a dashing, handsome, and largely self-taught prodigy who rose from humble beginnings to become the leading English portraitist of his day, president of the Royal Academy, and knight of the realm. In his mid-20s when he painted this picture, Thomas Lawrence was already painter to the king and a Royal Academician. Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton, whose nickname was “Pinkie,” came from