Sunday 30 August 2020

Clive Vale House and Frances Samworth

Clive Vale House, formerly Clive Vale Farm. 
 In 1852 Edward Lear lodged at Clive Vale Farm, and Holman Hunt came to join him. 
 At the house, Holman Hunt painted one of his best known works, ‘Our English Coasts or Strayed Sheep’ (see below), along with ‘Fairlight Downs, Sunlight on the Sea’, and the flowers round the bottom of the ‘Light of the World’. 
 Holman Hunt and Lear were visited at Clive Vale by Millais and other Pre-Raphaelite frequenters of Hastings. 
This was written by the present owner 
What would we do without Google? 
 One of the Samworth girls is Frances Samworth and she was Married to Jerome Nicholas Vlieland.






Annie and Joanna and Frances Samworth

Annie and Joanna  and Frances Elisabeth Samworth

Ann moved among the Pre-Raphaelite artist circles, exhibiting work with Holman Hunt and Barbara Bodichon [the ‘Barbara’ in the blog who was an artist and noted philanthropist who helped to found Girton College and is buried in Battle near Hastings]. 

Ann, Barbara and her children went on painting excursions to places such as the Dripping Well in Fairlight Glen on the cliffs above Hastings. 
Ann’s daughter Joanna studied with William Collingwood Smith, an outstanding teacher and Member of the Royal Water Colour Society who had a studio in Brixton in south London, and after 1851 in Paris with Henri Scheffer.

here some blogpictures found on google.
Here more about the Dutch painters Scheffer .
They were born in Dordrecht Holland and left after living in The Hague,Rotterdam and Amsterdam for Paris in 1811.This happened after the death of their father.

Amazing what you discover and forget  about all these people in your own blog.

Saturday 8 August 2020

the Live Bait Squadron

"the Live Bait Squadron "tells the story of one of the greatest shipping disasters in world history that took place 22 miles off the coast of Scheveningen. On 22 September 1914, three British cruisers patrol the North Sea. The First World War started seven weeks ago. There are 2300 crew members on board. They are completely surprised by a new, destructive weapon: the German U-boat. With just six torpedoes, 1,459 men and boys are killed in an hour and a half. The disaster has received little attention for 100 years. Today the three mass graves are at a depth of 30 meters. How did it come to this a century ago? And what has happened to these seaman's graves since then? In 2014 Klaudie Bartelink made an impressive film about this disaster. With the story of then and now and the memories of the relatives. "the Live Bait Squadron " vertelt het verhaal van één van de grootste scheepsrampen in de wereldgeschiedenis die 22 mijl uit de Scheveningse kust plaatsvond.Op 22 september 1914 patrouilleren drie Britse kruisers op de Noordzee. De Eerste Wereldoorlog is zeven weken geleden begonnen. Aan boord zijn 2300 bemanningsleden. Ze worden volledig verrast door een nieuw, destructief wapen: de Duitse U-boot. Met slechts zes torpedo’s komen 1459 mannen en jongens in anderhalf uur tijd om het leven. De ramp krijgt 100 jaar lang weinig aandacht. Vandaag liggen de drie massagraven op een diepte van 30 meter. Hoe heeft het een eeuw geleden zover kunnen komen? En wat is er sindsdien gebeurd met deze zeemansgraven?In 2014 maakte Klaudie Bartelink een indrukwekkende film over deze ramp. Met het verhaal van toen en nu en de herinneringen van de nabestaanden.