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Albert Bierstadt, 1830 - 1902, The Last of the Buffalo, c.1888
The Last of the Buffalo is Albert Bierstadt's final, great, western painting. The ambitious landscape combines a variety of elements he had sketched during multiple western excursions. Because of its composite nature, the view incorporates many topographical features representative of the Great Plains: the dead and injured buffalo in the foreground occupy a dry, golden meadow; their counterparts cross a wide river in the middle ground; and others graze as far as the eye can see as the landscape turns to prairies, hills, mesas, and snowcapped peaks.
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Albert Bierstadt, 1830 – 1902, was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.
The immense canvases he produced after his trips with Lander and Ludlow established him as the preeminent painter of the western American landscape. Bierstadt's technical proficiency, earned through his study of European landscape, was crucial to his success as a painter of the American West and accounted for his popularity in disseminating views of the Rocky Mountains to those who had not seen them.
In 1867, Bierstadt traveled to London, where he exhibited two landscape paintings in a private reception with Queen Victoria. He traveled through Europe for two years, cultivating social and business contacts to sustain the market for his work overseas. His exhibition pieces were brilliant images, which glorified the American West as a land of promise and "fueled European emigration”. Bierstadt was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 paintings during his lifetime.
Macclesfield was once the centre of the English silk weaving industry and the world's biggest producer of finished silk. The area has been printing silk for over 300 years and at one point had over seventy mills operating in the town. The town is close to a water supply that passes through limestone, and when used in washing and dyeing it gives silk a uniquely attractive lustre.
Our pocket squares are printed at a mill that has been producing printed fabric on the same site for the past fifty years and the process uses water sourced from its own reservoir.
The art of hand rolling pocket squares is a unique craft and truly makes each piece individual and unique. We feel that the precision and care taken by our skilled artisans gives each scarf its own unique character, finish and feel. To create the finest rolled hems, the edge of the silk or cotton pocket square must be softy turned over with a handheld needle and then small stitches are inserted approximately one half to one centimetre apart around the edge, creating a supple yet prominent border.
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Ludwig Deutsch, 1855-1935, The Palace Guard, 1892. 100% Silk Hand Rolled Designed and Printed in Britain 42cm x 42cm The guard in the present painting stands magisterially at the entrance...
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John Faed 1820-1902, Portrait of George Washington taking the Salute at Trenton, c.1899 100% Silk Hand Rolled Designed and Printed in Britain 42cm x 42cm This silk pocket square features...
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Benjamin West, 1738- 1820, Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald ('The Death of the Stag’), c. 1786 100% Silk...
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Emanuel Leutze, 1816–1868, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. 100% Silk Hand Rolled Designed and Printed in Britain 42cm x 42cm This pocket square features an iconic American painting by the...