When Pissarro returned to his home in France after the war, he discovered that of the 1, 500 paintings he had done over 20 years, which he was forced to leave behind when he moved to London, only 40 remained.

When a freedman of Nero was giving a gladiatorial show at Antium, the public porticoes were covered with paintings, so we are told, containing life-like portraits of all the gladiators and assistants.

When war was formally declared a year later, most of the museum's paintings were sent there as well.

When Madame Chiang was 103 years old, she had an exhibition of her Chinese paintings in New York.

When these paintings are made, they are stored in the gallery in Professor E. Gadd's laboratory.

When Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola first encountered the Magdalenian paintings of the Altamira cave, Cantabria, Spain in 1879, the academics of the time considered them hoaxes.

* When U. S. troops captured his mansion in Baghdad, they found a personal zoo stocked with lions and cheetahs ; an underground parking garage for his collection of luxury cars ; paintings glorifying him and his mother with Saddam ( which was known to have infuriated his father ); Cuban cigars inscribed with his name ; and millions of dollars worth of fine wines, liquor and heroin.

When John Casimir abdicated the Polish – Lithuanian throne, he brought many of his paintings with him to France.

When he started to command large sums for the sale of his works, Lowry purchased a number of paintings and sketches by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

When it opened on 4 May 1789 at 52 Pall Mall, the Shakespeare Gallery contained 34 paintings and by the end of its run it had between 167 and 170.

When the Museum opened Goya was still alive and it was only after his death that successive directors made great efforts to acquire his paintings, for example Federico de Madrazo, who purchased the tapestry cartoons.

When Catlin returned east in 1838, he assembled the paintings and numerous artifacts into his Indian Gallery, and began delivering public lectures which drew on his personal recollections of life among the American Indians.

When the walls finally do open, guests are ushered into a portrait corridor with paintings that depict seemingly innocent scenes.

When the Monet paintings were shown upside down, the pigeons were not able to properly categorize anymore ; showing the cubist works upside down did not have such an effect.

When taken from the context of the illumination and peopled with humans, these forms give Bosch's paintings a surreal quality which have no parallel in the work of any other Renaissance painter.

When contemporary critics did not seem to appreciate his own paintings, Hebborn began to copy the style of old masters such as: Corot, Castiglione

When his father went bankrupt, he began to travel around the United States, and supported himself with paintings he exhibited.

When Gorky showed his new work to André Breton in the 1940s, after seeing the new paintings and in particular The Liver is the Cock's Comb, Breton declared the painting to be " one of the most important paintings made in America " and he stated that Gorky was a Surrealist, which was Breton's highest compliment.

When he died he possessed 700 paintings, along with large collections of sculpture, books, prints, drawings, and antique jewellery.

When 17th century paintings of white Dodos were discovered by 19th century naturalists, it was assumed they depicted these birds.

When she was 16, she went with her father to Vienna, where she saw the paintings of old masters that inspired her.

When thickened, the oils became resinous and could be used as varnish to seal and protect paintings from water.

" When asked to identify the artistic genre of his Jokes, Prince responded, " the Joke paintings are abstract.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

When they were ready to leave, Benson and Ramey walked back around the rear of the trailer.

When they reached the school, a gang of boys and girls were already there playing `` crack the whip '' in front of the schoolhouse.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When Prudence and Blackberry were too young to be trusted in the dining room, they were tied to the radiator with their leashes, and they would cry.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When their levies came shambling into camp, they were all elbows, hair, and beard.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.

When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.

When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.

When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.

When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.

When we got there, Trig and the Negro were quarreling over possession of a gold crucifix around the neck of a wounded Filipino.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

When Papa's slender fingers removed the spectacles, there were red indentations on the bridge of the strong nose.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

When values of temperature derived with this instrument were compared with the accepted values associated with liquid helium-4 vapor pressures, differences of about 10 and 7 millidegrees respectively were found.