Christina Robertson – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna – 1841
Old School Grand
Echoes of Alcoa
Christina Robertson – Great Duchess Elena Pavlovna – 1841
I swear I know a lady in Louisiana who’s descended from this woman…
Tucker Carlson speaks Truth to Power
“Look, it’s really simple,” Carlson says. “The SAT 50 years ago pulled a lot of smart people out of every little town in America and funneled them into a small number of elite institutions, where they married each other, had kids, and moved to an even smaller number of elite neighborhoods. We created the most effective meritocracy ever.”
“But the problem with the meritocracy,” he continues, is that it “leeches all the empathy out of your society … The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid—I mean all the stuff that our ruling class is.”
Carlson recounts, with some amusement, how he saw these attitudes surface in his neighbors’ response to Trump’s victory. He recalls receiving a text message on election night from a stunned Democratic friend declaring his intention to flee the country with his family. Carlson replied by asking if he could use their pool while they were gone.
I’m not sure what the fix for this problem is, but it won’t be easy, and it’s liable to not be peaceful. We Deplorables have become… restive.
Young Buck
Christina Robertson – Vladmir Orlov-Davydov – 1840
White Princess
Christina Robertson – Princess Zinaida Yusupova – 1840
Fiddler in the Parlor
Christina Robertson – Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov – 1840
Joke of the Day
One sunny day very late in January, 2017, an old man approaches the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He speaks to the U.S. Marine standing guard and says, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama.”
The Marine looks at the man and says, “Sir, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here.” The old man says, “Okay,” and walks away.
The following day the same man approaches the White House and says to the same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama.”
The Marine again tells the man, “Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here.” The man thanks him and again just walks away.
The third day the same man approaches the White House and speaks to the very same U.S. Marine, saying, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama.”
The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looks at the man and says, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Obama. I’ve told you already that Mr. Obama is no longer the President and no longer resides here. Don’t you understand?”
The old man looks at the Marine and says,“Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it.”
The Marine snaps to attention, salutes, and says, “See you tomorrow, Sir!”
via Classical Values
Christina Robertson Week at TechnoChitlins
Infogalactic:
Christina Robertson RSA or Christina Saunders (17 December 1796 – 30 April 1854) was an Scottish artist who became a Russian court painter. She was the first woman honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy.
Saunders was born in Kinghorn in Fife in 1796. She is thought to have been both trained by her uncle, George Sa(u)nders and launched into her career based at his house in London. Sanders was a successful portrait painter and she rapidly established a flow of commissions initially from Scottish patrons for her miniatures but later for oil and watercolour paintings. By 1823 she was married to James Robertson and exhibiting at the Royal Academy and by 1828 she had her own studio. The following year she became the first honorary woman member of the Royal Scottish Academy.[1]
During the 1830s she was travelling away from her artist husband and her own children. She worked in Paris in the mid 1830s and she was tempted to St Petersburg. There would have been more commissions than normal to replace the paintings lost in the fire that destroyed the Winter Palace in 1837. Robertson was in St Petersburg from 1839 to 1841 where she carried out full length painting of Empress Alexandra and her three daughters – Maria, Olga and Alexandra. In 1841 she was made an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.[2]
Some of her portraits were engraved by 1833 and they were included in “The portrait gallery of distinguished females including beauties of the courts of George IV and William IV with memoirs by John Burke.[3]
Robertson died in Saint Petersburg.[2]
More pretty ladies- I’m a sucker for them. This is also an interesting glimpse at the royalty in St. Petersburg, Russia in the mid-19th century. They’re a pretty attractive group, I’d say.
Drivin’ That Train
Thomas Hart Benton – Wreck of the Ole 97 Train
Wrestling the River God
Thomas Hart Benton – Achelous and Hercules
(I hope the size of this doesn’t blow up too many displays…)
The Enemy
Thomas Hart Benton – no title found
I could find no information on this- obviously done sometime around or during WW2. I included it mainly for the spookiness and high creep factor…
Pick’n’Grin
Thomas Hart Benton – The Sources of Country Music
Freedom Fighter
High-strung Lady
Thomas Hart Benton – Jessie with Guitar
Sail Away
Thomas Hart Benton – Cut the Line
