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The Key to Memory: Use art to articulate

Danny Rees explains what William Utermohlen’s self-portraits can tell us about how and why we remember.

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A portrait of me with my mother

A series of portraits with stand-in mothers helped Camilla Greenwell to process her grief, and then to question whether our photograph albums are ever really honest.

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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.

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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.

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  • Historical portraits ... : the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ... / the portraits chosen by Emery Walker ... with an introduction on the history of portraiture in England.
  • Portrait of Sir Richard Blackmore.
  • Three Manchu Ministers of State. Peking
  • Portrait of Sir Henry Morris, Bart., F.R.C.S., a member of the St. Albans Medical Club
  • Chekiang, Sunging-Day waterfall
  • Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William Briggs Grandage, a member of the St. Albans Medical Club
  • Prince Kung, Peking, Pechilie province, China
  • Portrait of John Lumsden Propert, a member of the St. Albans Medical Club
  • Shanghai woman
  • Tung-sean, Chinese Minister of State, Peking
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