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First Impressions
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Painter to the Devil
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Prince of Caricatura
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James Hamilton
Artist of the Night
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He Painted It Black
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John McAleer
Viewing India on Acid
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Making Rome Great Again
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Those Damn Gentlemen
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Traditionalists & Exhibitionists
The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections
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Painting for Pleasure
Gainsborough: A Portrait
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Robin Simon
A Painter’s Progress
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Christopher Woodward
Ruins Sublime
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Tim Hilton
A Painter’s Progress
Young Mr Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775–1815
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Charles Saumarez Smith
The Artist’s Artist
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Frances Spalding
Pain’s Painter
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Paul Johnson
Painter of All Nature
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Lesley Downer
Artists of the Floating World
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Paul Binding
Artist of the Archipelago
August Strindberg: Painter, Writer, Photographer
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A Dream Play
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Bryan Appleyard
Some Capital Painters
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By Charles Saumarez Smith
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