the end of Scottish culture

Hendrick ter Brugghen, Bagpipe Player, 1624

An earlier reference to the Battle of Culloden here.

école de Honfleur

Eugène Boudin, Festival in the Harbor of Honfleur (1858), came from the school that contributed to the look of the Impressionists.

"Alcatraz for Millionaires"

Image source here.

This post tile quotation is by Jack Nicholson on Monaco.

shadow and form

Edward Hopper's "House by the Railroad" inspired the Bates' house in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."

arsenic and mercury

John Dryden, 1856

Robert Howlett succumbed to the hazards of early photography at the age of 27.

among the first outdoor painters

Eugène Boudin, Women on the Beach at Berck, 1881

"Everything that is painted directly and on the spot has always a strength, a power, a vivacity of touch which one cannot recover in the studio ... three strokes of a brush in front of nature are worth more than two days of work at the easel."

Image source here.

act now

"The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible."
- Pierre Bonnard, Self-Portrait (1889), courtesy of Artsy

Arlyn

This "Arlyn" table went at a Sotheby's auction for almost $1 million.

"It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value."
- Attributed to George Nakashima by Kristen of Artsy