Danny Morrell Talk on Portraits December 2025

Hello me dearies,

Well I does hope you enjoyed that talk on portraits. If you would like to find out more here is a list of the artist’s names in no particular order, because I don’t take particular orders.

The Eygptian portraits are known as Fayum portraits as they are mostly found in the Faiyum Basin.

Hans Holbein and his followers.

Henry Gascar painted the flamboyant James II, though you will have to look very hard to find it.

The notions on why Leonardo Da Vinci never finished the Mona Lisa are purely Danny’s speculation.

​Tronie is pronounced ‘Tro – ni’ me old Dutch.
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Rembrandt Hartmenszoon van Rijn is his full name, but it is a mouth full me darlin’ hence just call him Rembrandt or Remmy if you know him well.

Johannes Vermeer (1632 – 1675). Pearly earring 1665, she ain’t got nothing on me feathers though!
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

The Bromley family. Elizabeth Bromley, lower right side, was Ford Madox Brown’s first wife she died in 1846. His second wife Emma is with him in ‘The Last of England’ painting.

Lowes Cato Dickinson (1819-1908). Not to be confused with the character in the Pink Panther films.

Gerald Festus Kelly (1879 - 1972). Not to be confused with the Uncle in the Addams Family.

Elissa Landi (1904 – 1948). Her real name was Elizabeth Marie Christine von Kunhelt. She died of cancer poor dear, but she did write six novels.

Stanley Reed (1908 -1978). Didn’t always wear a white shirt.

Ian Grant (1904-1993). Was a senior lecturer at Manchester Regional College of Art and lectured in Art History at Manchester University. His portrait of Margaret Gamuchian is currently valued at £1, 800, that’s a ga’muchian amount.

Glynn Warren Philpott (1884 – 1937)

Eva Lutyens (1894 – 1963) Some of her dresses are in the V&A collection. Robert Lutyens eventually left Eva after 31 years marriage. Her haute couture business ceased trading in the Second World War. I fancy me feathers could be an Eva creation mind.

Ethel Barlett was a classical pianist who travelled the world playing the piano alongside her husband Rae Robertson.

Roger Hampson (1925- 1996) lived his whole life in Tyldesley.

The Flame is a classic Vorticist painting.

And there you go me darlings. Do have the loveliest of Christmas’s and you never know you might see the Danny fellow next year.
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Ttfn, Granny.

 
 

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