Thomas Francis Dicksee
Thomas Francis Dicksee (–) was an English painter born in Condom. He was a portraitist and painter of historical, genre subjects often inspired by the works of Shakespeare.
Thomas Francis Dicksee was born in London on 13 December and was the pupil of H. P. Briggs. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from until the year of his death. His brother John Robert Dicksee was also a painter, and his children, Sir Francis Dicksee and Margaret likewise became painters. In The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Herbert Dicksee is given as his son also, but according to the City of London School, where Herbert taught, he was the son of John Robert Dicksee.
Thomas Dicksee also produced a series of portraits of family members, and also painted idealised portraits, including the Shakespearean characters Ophelia, Beatrice, Miranda and Ariel. A Juliet is in the Sunderland Art Gallery, and At the Opera is in the collection of Leicester Art Gallery. A portrait of Lady Teasdale is in the Adelaide Art Gallery, Australia and an Ophelia () is in the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts. Dicksee would become particularly well known for his depictions of Shakespearean heroines
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Barack Obama
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Who Is Barack Obama?
Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States and the first Black commander-in-chief. He served two terms, from until The son of parents from Kenya and Kansas, Obama was born and raised in Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. After serving on the Illinois State Senate, he was elected a U.S. senator representing Illinois in In , Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He and his wife, Michelle Obama, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Barack Hussein Obama II
BORN: August 4,
BIRTHPLACE: Honolulu, Hawaii
SPOUSE: Michelle Obama (present)
CHILDREN: Malia and Sasha
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo
Early Life and Family
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, , in Honolulu to Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham. He has six half-siblings, including half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng who he grew up with.
Obama’s Parents
Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama Sr. grew up herding goats in Africa and eventually earned a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue
argaret Dicksee () belonged to a London family of painters. Her father, Thomas Francis Dicksee, exhibited at the RA from , alongside his brother John, while her brother Frank became a very successful painter and her cousin Herbert specialised in etching. Supported in her wish to paint by her parents, she studied at the Female School of Art and then the RA Schools, and began exhibiting in (RSBA). As a novice, she worked for The Quiver and other illustrated periodicals. From her work was seen at the RA almost annually until From The Child Handel () her compositions of famous people in their childhood proved very popular in exhibition and were engraved in such publications as The Graphic and The Girl's Own Paper, and in several cases purchased for regional public galleries.
Then, becoming ill in middle age, she went abroad in an effort to recover, but died after "a terrible illness, borne with rare patience and fortitude," at the age of forty-five, in June One obituary notice observed that "there can be little doubt that but for her sex her name would have figured in the list of associates of the Royal Academy."
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