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It was the portrait of his mistress but thought to be an allegory of a new bride's lost innocence

It’s difficult to believe I’d never heard of her before now

(As a side note to the main story Stanley arrived in Zanzibar in late1877 to find letters Alice had written two years before telling of her marriage to Barney and the birth of their daughter – Stanley fell into a deep depression and didn’t reply to her

Artist: William Morris Hunt

Musée No:379.031 giraffe It was the portrait ofMy Old Mill Artist: William Henry Holmes Date: 1846 1933 William Henry Holmes, (1846 1933), was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and director. While studying under Theodor Kaufmann in 1871 in Washington, D. C., he met Fielding B. Meek of the Smithsonian Institution, who hired him to illustrate his palaeontological reports. This was Holmess