Leon François Dumont

William Etty, Self-portrait (between 1845 and 1849), based on an October 1844 photograph by Hill & Adamson. Oil on millboard, 41.3 x 31.8 cm (16.2 x 12.5 in). National Portrait Gallery, London

🧵The 10 March 1787 marks the birth in York of artist William Etty (below). A renowned artist he is best known as the first major British artist to specialise almost exclusively in the female nude. Etty initially apprenticed as a printer before moving to London to study at the Royal Academy

Only 22% of the population actually want this according to polling. The right wing media are desperately trying to manufacture consent.

Screenshot of BBC headline "Failed asylum seeker families to be offered up to £40k to leave UK" - 5 March 2026

Screenshot of the Guardian headline "BNP would offer non-white Britons £50,000 to leave UK, says Nick Griffin" - 2010

"Families of failed asylum seekers will be offered up to £40,000 to leave the UK under a trial scheme announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood"

Sounds familiar

"BNP would offer non-white Britons £50,000 to leave UK, says Nick Griffin" - 2010

First protests erupt in Gibraltar over post-Brexit treaty By Maeve Gorman and Rachel Gore AS the dust starts to settle on Gibraltar’s long-awaited post-Brexit treaty, protestors gathered in the territory’s main

🆘 First protests in Gibraltar over the post-Brexit treaty.

Gib voted 96% to remain in EU.

Brexit forced Gib into negotiations where Spain and the EU now hold the leverage over its border and economy.

Another place dealing with consequences it never voted for.
www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2...

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

‘Hurrah for the blackcoats’ 🙃

First World Book Day after child left primary school and I’m a bit melancholy

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of standing Indian women in an outdoor area holding banners

The hand embroidered banners of the UK women's suffrage movement created for/by British Indian suffragettes, 1911. Physician Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh played a prominent role within the women's cause #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth

Did you know Hitler was attacked in London in May 1933?!!

Well technically... it is the max model of him from Madame Tussauds that someone threw red paint at. ;)
I assume they put that sign on him as well, not Madame Tussauds.

Wonder if Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and 90% of the UK media still think we should blindly follow the US to “light the signal fire” and cause Armageddon and Jesus to return to the earth…

Religious extremist much?

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Konstantin Korovin.
Ruso, 1861-1939.
Vida nocturna en la Rue Venis, París. 1932
Óleo sobre tabla.

Under a Reform UK government, only British citizens will be able to vote. FARAGE: Letting non-British citizens vote in UK threatens democracy

Farage and Reform are bad losers.

Their failure to secure the seat was down to the vast majority of voters roundly rejecting their hate because Gorton and Denton is a progressive place.

68% of voters in the constituency voted Green, Labour or Lib Dem.

Don't let them use lies to twist the truth.

'Choo-choo train, chuggin' down the track
Gotta travel on, never comin' back
Ooh-ooh, got a one-way ticket to the blues
- 'One Way Ticket (To The Blues)' by Neil Sedaka (1959)
- 📷 Woking, England, 1966, taken by Trevor Ermel

Uncut Trumpism. No election is valid unless they win it. Farage and Reform UK are outright enemies of democracy and the Mail is actively aiding them.

Amid rising alarm over suspected pollfraud, Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE that Reform UK was robbed of victory diary assertion in today's Mail on Sunday by foreign-born voters in last week's that 'Reform UK won the Gorton and Denton By Glen Owen Manchester by-election. by-election among British-born voters'. Amid mounting allegations that voter, fraud And he vowed that if he becomes Prime Pages 16-17 POLITICAL EDITOR and sectarianism contributed the Grecn

Truly, truly, truly disgusting.

Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics.

A Labour PM who allows ministers to gob in the faces of Labour's support base while courting bigots who will always despise Labour is a PM who is not fit for purpose.

Display showing the skeleton of Mok the gorilla alongside a sketch of him at London Zoo in 1936 (Leeds Museums)

An embroidered curtain being installed, Abbey House Museum

An 1850s crinoline dress displayed with a photograph of the original wearer, Abbey House Museum

Portrait of Colonel T Walter Harding wearing a Leeds University doctoral gown, Abbey House Museum

Abbey House Museum exhibition "In the Picture" finally opens today. Linking some fantastic objects with original pictures and photos. A real visual feast. @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

I thought he was the President that ended wars

Pen and watercolour sketch of the junction of two streets. The white 3-storey building is medieval and has a snicket or passage at the left hand end that leads through to a courtyard and another street.

Pen sketch of a street passing the end of the nearer street. The view is filled by a 3-storey medieval timber framed building.

At the junction of Swinegate and Grape Lane is a snicket through 19 Grape Lane which leads to Coffee Yard and Stonegate. 19 Grape Lane is an early 15th century timber framed building. It is presently home to Phranakhon, serving a menu of Thai street food.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#drawing

All Hail, the patron saint of ‘Unhinged Headlines’ received g the respect he deserves.

☕ Happy Birthday to the legendary #KyleMacLachlan / Agent Dale Cooper / Kale ☕
I wish you time to whittle. Because that's what you do in a town where a yellow light still means slow down, not go faster.
In a town like #TwinPeaks, where there's always damn good coffee. And hot!
👍 You are the FBI 👍

Strong look, sir

This really is a great picture:

I see two things in Gorton and Denton: palpable frustration and the need for wise voting to stop Reform | Polly Toynbee After speaking to locals, I still can’t predict the result, but a big, combined effort will be needed. Without a united front the left may splinter and lose, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The betting has the Greens at 1/2 and Labour at 5/1. If you actually want to keep Reform out, rather than making a rhetorical point, you can only rationally argue for Labour to step aside.

Just a reminder that anything you say on social media about Andrew MBW right now has the potential to compromise/derail the legal investigation. Sometimes pursuit of justice involves keeping schtum for a bit. 🤐

Measuring up for furniture?

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Pen and watercolour of replica Viking era artefacts. These include textiles, a warrior's helmet and ceramics on the table. A sheepskin on a longship bench that doubles as a chest and a shield.

A 19th century Norwegian fishing boat made in a similar way to how Viking ships were built.

Pen sketch of a group of people at a boarded trestle table with a replica chest/bench and stocks.

A sketch of a group of children with replica spears and shields by a wooden fence during a school trip to learn about the Viking way of life.

Today is the start of the Yorvik Festival 2026 so York will be busy with Vikings. By coincidence FB reminded me I was on a school trip to a replica Viking village back in 2019. A chance to draw some of the 2 days of living in the past.

#drawing #sketchbook
#ArtShare

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.