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The second Marquess envisaged a sculpture gallery at the house, which never came to fruition ; four marbles by Joseph Nollekens were carried out to his commission, in expectation of the gallery ; the ' Diana, signed and dated 1778, is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Juno, Venus and Minerva, grouped with a Roman antique marble of Paris, are at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Marquess, who was a member of the London County Council and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire.
* April 14 – William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, second son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
( 1501 – 19 May 1536 ) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right.
Sir Geoffrey Pole was arrested in August 1538 ; he had been corresponding with Reginald, and the investigation of Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter ( Henry VIII's first cousin and the Countess ' second cousin ) had turned up his name ; he had appealed to Thomas Cromwell, who had him arrested and interrogated.
She was a daughter of Theodore II, Marquess of Montferrat and his second wife Joanna of Bar.
From the Earl of Newport, the lordship passed to George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, and thence to his son, William Savile, the second Marquis, who died without issue.
For example, the second most senior title of the Marquess of Salisbury is the Earl of Salisbury.
It was built in 1780 allegedly to win a bet after the second Marquess claimed he could drive a coach and horses through the eye of a needle.
The dukedom was inherited by his second cousin once removed Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch ( see the Duke of Buccleuch for later history of this title ) while the marquessate and earldom of Queensberry passed to his kinsman Sir Charles Douglas, 5th Baronet ( see the Marquess of Queensberry for later history of these titles ).
The couple had two sons ; the elder son, Ryo ( 1885 – 1969 ), succeeded his father as the second Marquess Togo in 1934 and held the title until the kazoku was abolished in 1947.
In 1662 Edward Somerset, second Marquess of Worcester, published a book containing several ideas he had been working on.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Marquess.
Lord Eustace Cecil, fourth son of the second Marquess, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army and Member of Parliament.
Lord David Cecil, Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, was the second son of the fourth Marquess, while the journalist Lord Richard Cecil was the second son of the sixth Marquess.
Also, Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter of the second Marquess, was the mother of Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour.
( 1 ) 27 January 1943 Maj Hon Simon Nevill Astley ( b. 13 August 1919 ; d. 16 March 1946 ), 2nd son of Albert Edward Delaval, 21st Baron Hastings, by his wife Lady Margueritte Helen Nevill, only child by his second wife of Henry Gilbert Ralph, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny.
He was born at Sudbury, Derbyshire, a younger son of Edward Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York and his wife Lady Anne Leveson-Gower, who was a daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and his second wife Lady Louisa Egerton.
Lord Robert Cecil was the second son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and a descendant of William and Robert Cecil, chief ministers of Elizabeth I.
Lord Salisbury was the second son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, a minor Conservative politician.
* John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn ( 1756 – 1818 ), only son of Capt John, himself second son of the 7th Earl
The next creation of a title of Kent, was not that of Duke or Marquess, but rather that of Earl, with the creation of Prince Alfred ( 1844 – 1900 ), the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, as Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster, and of Kent in 1866.
second and envisaged
He theorized this could focus 10 < sup > 23 </ sup > protons per second on a 1 mm < sup > 2 </ sup > surface, then envisaged making two such beams collide.
If hypothetical mirror matter exists, Zurab Silagadze proposes that demons can be envisaged, " which can act like perpetuum mobiles of the second kind: extract heat energy from only one reservoir, use it to do work and be isolated from the rest of ordinary world.
* If an additional third, fourth, or fifth version of the product is envisaged down the line, this approach is far stronger, because the ready-made code libraries dramatically shorten the development life cycle for any additional products after the second.
The designations of some movements were altered as work progressed: for example the second movement was initially envisaged as a finale.
Inside the iron-and-steel structure of twin spirals, the design envisaged three building blocks, covered with glass windows, which would rotate at different speeds ( the first one, a cube, once a year ; the second one, a pyramid, once a month ; the third one, a cylinder, once a day ).
A series of major setbacks during the 1980s and the airline's inability to grow to the minimum size to become a viable " Second Force " ( as envisaged in the 1969 Edwards report ) led to increasing financial difficulties during the second half of that decade.
Usher stated that MacDonald needed to answer three crucial questions: first, whether he wanted to form a new party ; second, whether he envisaged returning to the Labour Party, and third, whether the National Government would continue for a long time and produce a single party of the centre.
In the late 1990s, there was consideration to move the Beehive behind Parliament House to allow the second stage of Parliament House to be built, as envisaged in 1911.
The second circumstance is thus envisaged more for mission territories where priests may visit certain villages only a few times a year.
A second construction stage envisaged in the bridge's design involves the addition of a glass passenger cabin travelling on a rail of the underside of the deck to make this a transporter bridge.
" Thus, of the five types of contents envisaged by its founders, only the second and to a lesser extent the third remain, largely shorn of their biological roots.
His proposal envisaged a system of units in which the base unit of length was defined by a pendulum that had a period of one second, and the base unit of mass was defined by a cube of rainwater having sides equal to the base unit of length.
second and sculpture
Franklin's birthplace site directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street is commemorated by a bust ( sculpture ) | bust above the second floor facade of this building
In June 2010 Modigliani's Tête, a limestone carving of a woman's head, became the second most expensive sculpture ever sold.
This sculpture was dated by Reinach ( 1922, pp. 217 – 232 ), from the form of the letters, to the end of the first century or start of the second century.
The second Wright house is the Kentuck Knob residence, grounds, and sculpture park-open to the public for tours and countryside walks.
The development of accommodation and car parks for the college and multiple use as a country and sculpture park and general neglect in the second half of the 20th century led to the historic landscape's fragmentation and it was designated " at risk " by English Heritage in 2009.
* On 14 June 2010 Amedeo Modigliani's Tête, a limestone sculpture of a woman's head, became the second most expensive sculpture ever sold and the most expensive work of art sold in France.
The second contribution is the exploration of Mexico and the publication of many examples of Maya and Aztec sculpture, although errors in his illustrations fostered misconceptions about Mesoamerican civilizations and contributed to Mayanism.
He found the sculpture next to a grave on the Trosdal family plot at the end of his second day of searching, and had to make the shot quickly as dusk approached.
Noguchi only produced one sculpture – his marble Sphere Section – in his first year, but during his second year he stayed in Paris and continued his training in stoneworking with the Italian sculptor Mateo Hernandes, producing over twenty more abstractions of wood, stone and sheet metal.
Conversely, his second sculpture, a nine-ton stainless steel bas-relief entitled News, was unveiled over the entrance to the Associated Press building at the Rockefeller Center in April 1940 to much praise.
The sculptor Donatello returned to classical techniques such as contrapposto and classical subjects like the unsupported nude — his second sculpture of David was the first free-standing bronze nude created in Europe since the Roman Empire.
The second level of sculpture depicts Phidias, Homer, Aristotle, and Euclid.
A second example of monumental copper repoussé sculpture is Portlandia by Raymond Kaskey, which was installed in 1985 in downtown Portland, Oregon.
Bacchante and Infant Faun is MacMonnies ' second best-known sculpture.
Ceramics and sculpture studios will vacate their second floor space in favor of more practical first floor spaces.
A more recent view, put forward by Malcolm MacMillan and Peter Swales in their essay entitled Observations from the Refuse-Heap: Freud, Michelangelo ’ s Moses, and Psychoanalysis, relates the sculpture to a second set of Tables and the event mentioned in Exodus 33:
First created in the second half of the 16th-century, these terraces would originally have included a number of knot gardens, probably with Italianate sculpture and carved stone balustrades.
Amongst his many awards and recognitions is the second place prize in 1965 for his sculpture " Caracol " in a sculpting contest held for young Latin American artists and sponsored by Esso.
Morlaiter has an additional sculpture found in the second chapel to the right of San Gregorio Barbarigo.
The second covers European art with sections dedicated to the art of the book, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts, particularly 18th century French art and the work of René Lalique.
Its external features include a variety of windows, most with mullions, and some with elaborate architraves, a two-storey oriel window at the junction of the streets, stepped gables, turrets with ogee domes, a balustraded parapet above the second storey, a serpentine balcony ( also balustraded ) above the main entrance in Hope Street, and a low relief sculpture of musicians and musical instruments.
This sculpture was dated by Reinach ( 1922, pp. 217 – 232 ), from the form of the letters, to the end of the first century or start of the second century.
One year later a second sculpture, Miss Ko2, sold for $ 567, 500.
1.549 seconds.