Hull City Hall - Detail of Decorative Frieze
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Hull City Hall - Detail of Decorative Frieze
Image: © David Wright Taken: 2 Sep 2008
This panel, one of twenty-six great artists, represents Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier 1815-1891 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis-Ernest_Meissonier I was familiar with one of his paintings - Campagne de France 1814 which is often misrepresented in English publications as The Retreat from Moscow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Meissonier_-_1814,_Campagne_de_France.jpg The other artists represented are: Rubens, Lely, Velasquez, Titian, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Memling, Reynolds, Perugino, Michaelangelo, Teniers, Watts, Kneller, Romney, Landseer, Holbein, Lawrence, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Turner, Leighton, Franz Hals, Millais, Murillo and Poussin.
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Image Location
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53.743915
Longitude
-0.341747