Musée No:379.031 giraffe It was the portrait of

It was the portrait of his mistress but thought to be an allegory of a new bride's lost innocence

which were typically assembled in front of a landscape

By 1892 his work had changed again and he focused on drawings in crayons with serene subjects

educated and modern who lived upper class lives but used their wealth and privilege to defy convention

Musée No:379.031 giraffe It was the portrait ofMy Old Mill Artist: William Henry Holmes Date: 1846 1933 William Henry Holmes, (1846 1933), was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and director. While studying under Theodor Kaufmann in 1871 in Washington, D. C., he met Fielding B. Meek of the Smithsonian Institution, who hired him to illustrate his palaeontological reports. This was Holmess