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I enlarged a section of this picture until slightly pixelated but I like the effect it created.

Looking back across the rooftops of the walled city of Orvieto, Italy.

Beautiful sunset at Seacliff Beach.

Fun image of some of my studio toys.

Shot of my boys on a street after dinner in Orvieto.

One of the many charming streets in the walled city of Orvieto, Italy

An apartment built into the side of the hill in the village of Montarossa, Italy.

Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) was a landscape and marine painter and a major figure of the Rockport (MA) School of American regional art. He was a contemporary of important Rockport artists Aldro Hibbard, Emil Gruppe, W. Lester Stevens, Antonio Cirino, and Marguerite Pierson. Born in Rotterdam on February 20, 1888, Thieme studied at the Academie of […]

Very nice small etching by Anthony Thieme. Plate signed, mounted on board. A very collectible artist. Additional information in “About the artist” section.

About the La Belle Assemblée John Bell (1745-1831) ran Bell’s Circulating Library, which c. 1778-1780, according to one of its catalogues had “above fifty thousand volumes (English, Italian, and French) in history, antiquities, voyages …” La Belle Assemblee was also sometimes called Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine or the Court Magazine and Belle Assemblee. The […]