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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”
—Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday

🎨 “Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham”, Sir John Lavery (1893)

8/18

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Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw

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He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”
—Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday

🎨 “Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham”, Sir John Lavery (1893)

8/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #FordMadoxFord

Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

RBCG’s wife, Gabriela de la Balmondière, was equally exotic & romantic. Born in Chile, her father – French nobleman Francisco Jose de la Balmondière – & his elegant Spanish wife were both killed when Gabriela was 12. She grew up with an aunt in Paris.

📷 Gabriela de la Balmondière

9/18

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A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

RBCG & Gabriela met in Paris when he was 26 & she was only 17. They were married just 6 weeks later. They travelled to the USA & settled into a Bohemian life in Mexico, where RBCG taught fencing & Gabriela taught French & guitar.

10/18

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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

11/18

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