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Famous artists crazy?

Except for cat pictures Louis Wain, are there other famous works of art like when you can actually see an artist dissent madness in his works progressive?

Vincent was not crazy! He was emotional and had a medical problem of the inner ear and possibly suffering undiagnosed epilepsy. But he was not crazy. S. Dali was as mad as a hatter and yet smart enough to know its own madness might help to promote their art. Munch's work comes to mind when I see your question and emotional, but his problems of depression (a type of madness, I suppose). His work certainly reflects their deepest thoughts concern.

History of Portsmouth – England, Their famous people and events

Hello, my name is Paul Hussey and I was born in Portsmouth – England in 1961.

Portsmouth's history is intertwined with the history of Portsmouth Naval Base of His Majesty that stretches nearly two thousand years. The time of the Romans the first to recognize its strategic importance and built the fort "Adurni Portus," and now home to 80% of the surface fleet of the Royal Navy.

While famous events and many people are born, lived and worked in Portsmouth over the centuries thought it would be a good idea to tell his story and part of the history of famous people.

The last person to be tried as a witch was a Mrs. Duncan, a Scot who traveled the country have seances, was one of the most famous in Britain, reportedly numbering Winston Churchill and George VI among her clients when she was arrested in January 1944 by two naval officers at a seance in Portsmouth. The military, secretly preparing for D-Day landings and then into a major state of paranoia, were alarmed by reports that she had disclosed – allegedly via contacts with the spiritual world – the sinking of two British warships long before it became public. The most serious disclosure came when he told the parents of a missing sailor that his ship, HMS Barham, had sunk. It was true, but news of the tragedy had been suppressed to preserve morale.

Desperate to silence the apparent leak state secrets, the authorities responsible for Ms. Duncan of conspiracy, fraud and witchcraft in an act dating to 1735 – the position for the first time in more than a century. At trial, only the magic "black" accusations stuck, and was jailed for nine months in Holloway women's prison in north London. Churchill, then Prime Minister, visited her in jail and denounced the sentence as "nonsense." In 1951 Act was repealed 200 years, but remained in their convictions.

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of first (vil'yurz, bŭk'ing-um) [] key, 1592-1628, English courtier and royal favorite.

While organizing a second campaign was stabbed and killed in Portsmouth on August 23, 1628 by John Felton, an army officer who had been wounded in the previous adventure military. Felton was hanged in November and was buried in Buckingham Westminster Abbey. His grave has an inscription in Latin translation: "The enigma of the world" and was also one of the most prized court real in history.

The romantic aspects of the professional figure of the Duke heavily on the historical novel of Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers. The Duke of Buckingham died leaving his wife Katherine Manners, daughter Mary and son George, 1628.

Admiral Lord George Anson (April 23. 1697-1762)
George Anson, Baron Anson first was a British admiral and a wealthy aristocrat, noted for his circumnavigation of globe.
He sailed around the world between 1740-1744 aboard the HMS Centurion and brought £ 500,000 worth of gold (equivalent in today's money of £ 250 million!) As the spoils of the Spanish in South America.

Jonas Hanway (1712-1786)
Born in Portsmouth and pioneer of Umbrella.
English traveler and philanthropist, was born in Portsmouth in 1712. While still a child, his father, a victual, died and the family moved to London. In 172 9 Jonas was apprenticed to a merchant in Lisbon. In 1743, after having spent some time in business for himself in London, he became a partner of Mr. Dingley, a merchant in St. Petersburg, and thus was traveling in Russia and Persia. Leaving St Petersburg on September 10, 1743, and passing south of Moscow, and Astrakhan Tsaritsyn, embarked on the Caspian Sea on 22 November and reached Astrabad at 18 December. Here their property was confiscated by Mohammad Hassan Beg, and it was only after great hardships he arrived the camp of Nadir Shah, under whose protection he recovered most (85%) of their property. His return trip was embarrassed by the disease (Resht), for attacks to the pirates, and quarantine of six weeks, and only reappeared at St Petersburg on January 1, 1745.

Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805)
(Nelson Emma and her lover spent time in Portsmouth)
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson first, KB (September 29, 1758 to October 21, 1805) was a British admiral famous for his participation in the Napoleonic wars, especially in the Battle of Trafalgar, a decisive victory in the UK the war, during which he was killed. [1] Nelson was noted for his great ability to inspire and make the best of his men, to the point that won a name: "The Nelson Touch."
His actions during these wars meant that before and after his death he was revered like few military figures have been throughout British history.

During the 18th century, even if had been married for some time, Nelson became famous for his affair with Emma, Lady Hamilton, wife of British ambassador to Naples and became the lover Nelson, returning to the United Kingdom to live openly with him, and eventually had a daughter, Horatia. It was public knowledge of this issue that prompted the Navy to send Nelson back into the sea after he had been recalled. By his death in 1805, Nelson had become a national hero and was given a funeral State. To this day his memory lives on in numerous monuments, the most notable of which is London's Nelson's Column, which is located in the center of Trafalgar Square.

John Pound (1766-1839)
John Pounds was born in Portsmouth on June 17, 1766. His father was a sawyer in the royal dockyard and when I was twelve, her father arranged for him to be an apprentice shipwright. Three years later John fell into a dry dock and was crippled for life.

Unable to work as a carpenter, became a shoemaker and 1803 had his own workshop in St. Mary Street, Portsmouth. While working at the shop, John began teaching local children to read. His reputation as a teacher grew and soon had over 40 students attending their classes. Unlike other schools, John did not charge for teaching the poor of Portsmouth. Besides reading and arithmetic, John gave lessons in cooking, carpentry and shoemaking. Pounds John died in 1839.

Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Portsmouth in Hampshire, the second of eight children of John Dickens (1786-1851), an employee of the Office of the Navy to pay in Portsmouth, and his wife Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow, 1789-1863) on February 7, 1812. When I was five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent. In 1822, when he was ten years the family moved to 16 Bayham Street, Camden Town in London.

Charles Dickens published over a dozen major novels, a large number of stories (including a series of Christmas-themed stories), a handful of plays and several books of nonfiction. Dickens's novels were originally serialized in weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats.
The traveling exhibition was extremely popular and, after three visits the British Isles, Dickens gave his first public reading of the United States in a theater in New York City on December 2, 1867.

On June 9, 1870 died at his home in Gad's Hill Place after suffering a stroke, after a full life, interesting and varied. He was mourned by all his readers.

Jeremiah Chubb (1793-1860) and Charles Chubb (1779-1846)
Both brothers lived and worked in Portsmouth and are famous Chubb Locksmiths.

Chubb's name is world famous for the invention lock lock detector and the production of High Quality lever security locks in circulation for a period of 140 years. The detector lock was patented in 1818 by Jeremiah Chubb of Portsmouth, England, who won the prize offered by the Government of a lock could not be opened by any but their own key. It is recorded that, after the appearance of this lock detector, a prisoner on board one of the prison ships at Portsmouth Shipyard, who was by profession lockmaker, advertisements had been used in London in making and repairing locks, said he had picked up easily some of the finest locks and Chubb could pick with equal ease. Improvements in the lock were made subsequently under various patents by Jeremiah Chubb and his brother Carlos.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)
Brunel, perhaps, was the most prodigious engineer of his time and many of his works, which challenged and inspired his colleagues during this period have survived until today and some are still in use.

Born in 1806, son of an engineer distinguished French, Sir Marc Brunel, who had come to England at the time of the French Revolution. Unlike most of the time engineers, Isambard Brunel received a good education and practical training – partly in France – before entering the office of his father and take over fully from the Thames Tunnel in Rotherhithe when he was 20.

At the age of 26, was named Engineer of the newly formed Great Western Railway, and acted with courage and energy feature. His civil engineering major works on the line between London and Bristol, are used by high speed trains today and witness his genius Finally designed more than 1,200 kilometers of railway lines, including lines in Ireland, Italy and Bengal. Each of its three ships represented a major step forward in naval architecture.

Other works of Brunel included ports, viaducts, tunnels and prefabricated buildings and the notable hospital, with its air conditioning systems drainage for use in the Crimean War. Inevitably, in a career so prolific, there were setbacks and disappointments, such as rail air but readily admitted their mistakes. In fact he himself suffered financially by supporting their businesses with their own money.

Brunel suffered several years of poor health, with kidney problems, before succumbing to a stroke at the age of 53 years. Brunel was said to smoke 40 cigarettes a day and sleeping only four hours a night.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

George Meredith (1828-1909)
Renowned novelist and poet who was born in Portsmouth.
Contribution poems in various newspapers, an associate of Pre-Raphaelite group Dante Gabriel Rossetti around Algernon Swinburne, published
the poem Modern Love 1862; author of several novels like Diana of the Crossways 1885, which first brought him acclaim popular.

George Vicat Cole (1833-1893)
George Vicat Cole (generally known as Vicat Cole) was an important landscape painter working in the mid-19th century. According to the realistic mood of that period, he painted naturalistic English landscape scenes, without attempting deeper meanings or looking for rustic ideals. His specialty was the effect of the atmosphere and light.

Cole was born in Portsmouth, and trained in the workshop of his father, George Cole (1810-1883), an eminent painter landscapes, animals and portraits that stood in for Vice President of the Society of British Artists. When I was young, Cole copied prints of works by Turner, Constable and Cox, and paintings of these men had a strong influence on him.

William Lionel Wylie (1851-1931)

Marino famous artist who lived and died in Portsmouth. Wylie was born into a family of artists in 1851. Rather bohemian family spent their summers on the coast of northern France. Wylie recalled the boat trip filled the Thames in London on his way to Boulogne. When I was about 12 years went to art school in London, and in 1866 began at the Royal Academy School. In 1869 won the Turner Gold Medal landscape. In 1870 one of the first pictures he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London was the monument, a panoramic view of the city and the river and he began working as an illustrator of maritime issues of the journal graphic. He had to accurately reproduce detail in black and white, and discipline this probably influenced him when he began making etchings in the 1880s. Wyllie first known recording, made in 1884, is fatigue, brightness, dirt and wealth in a flow of the tide. It was commissioned by Robert Dunthorne print editor. Thames Wyllie images led to his being elected a fellow of the Royal Academy in 1889. In 1907, when he became a scholar Real, had moved to a house at the entrance of Portsmouth Harbour. It had become largely naval painting and historical themes. However, he continued to make prints of London and the Thames to the end
of his life.

Mr. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Doyles were a prosperous Irish-Catholic family, who had a prominent position in the world of art. Charles Altamont Doyle, Arthur's father, an alcoholic, was the only member of his family, which also to be the father of a bright child, he never achieved anything of note. At the age of twenty years, Charles was married to Maria Fernandez, a young vibrant and well educated seventeen.
Maria Doyle had a passion for books and was a master storyteller. His son Arthur wrote to his mother's gift, "lowering his voice to a horrified whisper, "when the climax of a story. There was little money in the family and harmony alone because of the excesses of his father and behavior erratic. Arthur's poignant description of the beneficial influence of his mother is movingly described in his biography, "In my early childhood, far as I can remember anything at all, the vivid stories he told me so clearly highlights that obscure the real facts of my life. "
After Arthur was his ninth birthday, wealthy members of the Doyle family offered to pay for college. He was crying all the way to England, where for seven years he had go to a Jesuit boarding school. Arturo abhorred fanaticism surrounding their studies and rebelled in corporal punishment, which was prevalent and incredibly brutal in most English schools of the time.
During those grueling years, a few minutes of happiness Arthur had when he wrote to his mother, a habit which lasted for the rest of his life, and when playing sports, especially cricket, which was very good.

The young medical student met a number of future authors who also attend the university, including James Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson. But the man who most impressed and influenced him, was no doubt one of his professors, Dr. Joseph Bell. The good doctor was a master at observation, logic, deduction and diagnosis. All these qualities are more later found in the person of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.
A couple of years in school, Arthur decided to try his pen to write a short story. Although the result called The Valley Mystery Sasassa was very reminiscent of the works of Edgar Alan Poe and Bret Harte, his favorite authors at the time, was accepted in a magazine called Journal Edinburgh House, which had published the first work of Thomas Hardy.
first job Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle paid after graduation was as a medical officer Mayumba vapor in a battered old ship sailing between Liverpool and the west coast of Africa.
Unfortunately he found so detestable as he Africa had found the seductress in the Arctic, so they gave up that position as soon as the boat landed back in England. Then came a short but spectacular stint with an unscrupulous doctor in Plymouth that Conan Doyle was a vivid account of forty years later in The Stark Munro Letters. After that debacle, and on the verge of bankruptcy, Conan Doyle went to Portsmouth to open its first practice.
He rented a house, but was only able to present the two rooms of his patients to see. The rest housing was almost naked and practice had had a difficult start. But it was compassionate and hard working so late in the third year, his practice began to earn him a comfortable income.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also became one of the first goalkeeper of Portsmouth Football Club in the early 1880.

Arthur Conan Doyle died on Monday, July 7, 1930, surrounded by his family. His last words before leaving for "the most glorious adventure and greatest of all ", addressed to his wife. He whispered:" You are wonderful. "

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Famous author who lived and was educated in Portsmouth.
Kipling's days of "strong light and darkness" in Bombay were to end to when I was six years old. As was the custom in British India, he and his sister three years, Alice ("Trix"), were taken to England where the South Seas (Portsmouth), to be attended by a couple who took in children of British citizens living in India. The two children living with couple, Captain and Mrs. Holloway, at home, Lorne Lodge, for the next six years. In his autobiography, written some 65 years later, Kipling recalls this time with horror, and wonder ironically if the combination of cruelty and neglect he experienced there in the hands of Mrs. Holloway might not have hastened the start of his literary life.
Kipling kept writing until the 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. Died of bleeding from a perforated duodenal ulcer, 18 January 1936, two days before George V, at the age of 70.

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946), known as HG Wells,

It was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Dr. Moreau. He was a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history and social commentary. He was also an openly socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction fiction are widely read today. Both Wells and Jules Verne are sometimes referred to as the "father of science fiction."

Unable and support themselves financially, the family instead sought to place their children as apprentices in various professions. From 1881-1883 Wells had an unhappy apprenticeship as a haberdashery in Southsea Emporio curtains. His experiences were later used as inspiration for his novels The Wheels of Chance and Kipps, depicting the life of an apprentice Draper, besides being a critique of the global distribution of wealth.

In 1883, Wells employer dismissed him, claiming to be dissatisfied with it. The boy was reportedly not displeased with this ending to their learning. Later that year, he became an assistant teacher at Midhurst School Grammar, West Sussex (Education students as AA Milne, until he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science (later the Royal College of Science, which now part of Imperial College London), studying biology in TH Huxley. As a former student, who later contributed to the creation of the Royal College of Science Association, which became the first president in 1909.

Neville Shute (1899-1960)
Famous Author / Aero-engineer who worked in Portsmouth.
Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. Shute father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, was the bureau chief post in Dublin in 1916 and Shute was praised for his role as an orderly during the Easter Rising. Shute attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, but not his stuttering was unable to take a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, instead of serving in the First World War as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment. An aeronautical engineer and as a pilot, who began his engineering career with De Havilland Aircraft Company, but, dissatisfied with the lack of promotion opportunities, took a position in 1924 with Vickers Ltd., where he participated in the development of aircraft. Shute worked as Chief Calculator (Stress Engineer) in the project for the R100 Airship Guarantee Company subsidiary dirigible. In 1929 he was promoted to Deputy Chief Engineer of the project R100 under Sir Barnes Wallis.

Walter Lord 14/08/1836 to 06/09/1901 Besant famous novelist / scientist and historian in London. His sister-in-law was Annie Besant.
The son of a merchant, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and attended school in San Pablo, Southsea, Stockwell Grammar, London and King's College London. In 1855 he was admitted as a pensioner at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1859 with the maximum 18. After a year as a math teacher at Rossall School, Fleetwood, Lancashire, and one year in Leamington College, he spent six years as a professor of mathematics at the Royal College, Mauritius. A breakdown in health forced him to resign, and returned to England and settled in London in 1867. Took the Secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund, which he held from 1868-1885. In 1871, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn.

Besant was a Mason, acting as a Master Mason in the Marquis of Dalhousie Lodge, London since 1873. He conceived research the idea of a Masonic lodge, the Lodge Quatuor Coronado was the first treasurer since 1886.

Sir Alec Rose (13 July 1908-11 enero 1991)
He owned a nursery and fruit merchant in Portsmouth England who had a passion for sailing single-handed amateur to who was knighted last resort.

Alec Rose was born in Canterbury. During the Second World War he served in the British Army diesel mechanic on a convoy escort, HMS Leith. In 1964, Rose participated in the second solo transatlantic race, placing fourth in line cutters to 36 feet Lively Lady, originally built by Mr. paduak of Cambridge, the last owner in Calcutta.

Rose then modified by boat, including the addition of a mizzen mast to sail solo around the world. He tried to start this trip about the same time at2 Francis Chichester sailing Gypsy Moth IV in 1966, but a series of mishaps delayed the departure of Rose until the following year. The trip was followed closely by the British press and internationally, and successfully completed his return to Portsmouth on July 4, 1968, 354 days later, crowds of hundreds of thousands. The next day, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and nine days later turned 60 years old. His travels are detailed in his book "My Lady Lively."

On December 17, 1967, then Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, led some members of the family to Port Phillip Heads, south of Melbourne, to see Rose complete this stage of their journey. Grove then went swimming at Cheviot Beach near but the surf was rough, out of sight, and presumably would be drowned.

Callaghan of Cardiff, Leonard James Callaghan, Baron, (1912-2005)
Born and educated in Portsmouth.

statesman British. He was first elected to Parliament as Labour member in 1945. As chancellor of the exchequer (1964-67), introduced tax policies highly controversial, such as employment taxes, who resigned when he was forced to accept the devaluation of the pound. Home Minister Harold Wilson Wilson, Harold (James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx), 1916-95, British statesman. A graduate of Oxford, became a professor of economy (1937) and member of the University College (1938).

Callaghan served as foreign secretary (1974-76). He succeeded Wilson when he resigned as Prime Minister in 1976. Callaghan was by nature a moderate man, but his government was plagued by inflation, unemployment, and its inability to restrain union demands wages, and went down after a series of paralyzing labor strikes in the winter of 1978-79. In the elections later in 1979, the Labor Party lost to the Conservatives, led by Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher, Baroness 1925 -, British political leader.

Portsmouth FC (Pompey).

Pompey was established in 1898 and the first participants in the Southern League, one of his goalkeepers first pre-1898 was the author Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Portsmouth have become a club worth playing in the top flight of English football.

Portsmouth's debut season in the English First Division during the 1920s proved difficult. However, despite disappointing league form the club battled tough competition to reach the FA Cup final loss of about Bolton Wanderers.

After consolidating its position in the top flight, the 1938-1939 season saw Portsmouth back to the FA Cup final. This Wolves were once successful playing Portsmouth in a convincing 4-1 victory. The club had secured their first major trophy.

After the end of the Second War Football League Portsmouth started again and quickly proved to the masses of football was a team to consider lifting the League title in 1949 the season. The club was crowned this achievement by retaining the title the following year 1950 and became one of the five English teams to have won consecutively championships since the Second World War.

Portsmouth was the first club to hold a party of the Football League with lighting when they played Newcastle in 1956.

Finally, under the direction of Harry Redknapp Portsmouth were promoted to the Premier League and have a solid place in the top category since this date despite coming close to relegation on several occasions.

Recently, Portsmouth have gone from strength to strength under the careful handling Harry Redknapp and a much-needed injection of cash. In the 2007-2008 season Portsmouth won the English FA Cup and qualified for Cup qualifying UEFA. They had demonstrated a strong and cohesive team.

Unfortunately, at present (2010) are in financial difficulties and at the root of the Premiership and have just nine points deducted for entering administration and are now relegated to the League Championship Division. Came FACup the final in 2010.

The last person to be tried as a witch was a Mrs. Duncan, a Scot who traveled the country with seances, was one of the most famous in Britain, reportedly numbering Winston Churchill and George VI among her clients, when she was arrested in January 1944 by two naval officers at a seance in Portsmouth. The military, secretly preparing for D-Day landings then in a heightened state of paranoia, were alarmed by reports that she had disclosed – allegedly via contacts with the spiritual world – the sinking of two ships British war long before it became public. The most serious disclosure came when he told the parents of a missing sailor that his ship, HMS Barham, had sunk. It was true, but the news of the tragedy had been suppressed to preserve morale.

Desperate to silence the alleged leaking state secrets, the authorities responsible for Ms. Duncan of conspiracy, fraud and witchcraft in a ceremony that dates back to 1735 – the position for the first time in more than a century. At trial, only the magic "black" accusations stuck, and was jailed for nine months in Holloway women's prison in north London. Churchill, then prime minister, visited her in jail and denounced the sentence as "nonsense." In 1951 Act was repealed 200 years, but remained in his convictions.

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