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charleygirl) wrote2008-10-28 01:47 pm
charleygirl) wrote2008-10-28 01:47 pm
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'My grandmother was a sister of the French artist Vernet...'
While browsing around for 18th century artists' work I came across portraits of Sherlock Holmes's great-uncle, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather.
Claude Joseph Vernet, Holmes's great-great-grandfather, by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun:
Robert Lefefre's portrait of Holmes's great-grandfather, Carle Vernet:
A self-portrait by Horace Vernet, brother of Holmes's grandmother:
Something of a 'family resemblance' in the last one, don't you think?
Claude Joseph Vernet, Holmes's great-great-grandfather, by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun:
Robert Lefefre's portrait of Holmes's great-grandfather, Carle Vernet:
A self-portrait by Horace Vernet, brother of Holmes's grandmother:
Something of a 'family resemblance' in the last one, don't you think?