Worthies !: Fine Art Portraits in Public Places & Unknown Spaces

About Worthies !: Fine Art Portraits in Public Places & Unknown Spaces

May the best be here honoured, and the forgottten here remembered! . . . . . . . . . . . .

History awaits us [.]!! ~ Welcome here ...




OUR AWARD CODES: new INVITE-AWARD, plus in-group Comment code are shown below and appear in this discussion.


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We invite you all -- photographers, councillors, Gallery Directors, historians, Art teachers, off-duty or
amateur librarians, Art assistants, etc. -- to help us assemble a colour photographic collection of the
quality oil paintings in our collective care or possession, or which are known to us, plus to develop a
comprehensive and updateable online List of quality portaits of "Worthies" in each community
and region, along with notable historic, personal, and artistic details, as available.



. If you have some quality colour digital images to hand of the men and women we refer to as "Worthies", we invite you to join our "Worthies ... !: Fine Art Portraits of Public Places or Unknown Spaces" group. Additionally, if you have a List of Portraits in your region, we would love you to post this in our Discussions.


If an unusual portrait seems relevant, please send it in. If it is a quality, most likely formal head and shoulders, or full-length portrait [oils preferred], patiently mouldering in some largely ignored Gallery or Corporation corridor of city, town, or village Hall, or hidden away in some little-noticed Assembly Room, Board Room, etc.? If so, share your discovery here with a well-lit and nicely focussed photo of your 'find'. Invite images of others with our INVITE code [below].

WORTHIES URGES YOU TO BE ACTIVE -- TO BUILD A "WORTHY" & GOOD LIFE!!!



Far too many great portraits remain relatively unknown. Internet searches do not as yet provide images or information of their existence. We aim to change all this! While many preserved hints clearly reveal that certain named portraits may be found in such locations, few of these portraits have yet received digital photographic attention. What
an exciting challenge for keen photographers with talent!!!


. SHARE YOUR FINE-ART PORTRAIT IMAGES in our group. Next, give our in-group AWARD with a kind comment -- to any image[s] you favor. Use the in-group html code below: -- Copy, then paste the htmls with your comment into the Comments Box of any image which you wish to AWARD in this group. Here's what it looks like:


Delightful image! Thanks for adding this to …
"Worthies ... !: Fine Art Portraits in Public Places or Unknown Spaces"
Please add tag "Worthies"

Enjoy Art Questing for 'lost' fine art. Share clues, interpretations, etc.
Help build OUR REGISTER OF CIVIC, ETC. PORTRAITS,
INCLUDING WORKS AT UNKNOWN SITES

Below is the code to use to add the above image and text when you wish to comment on a portrait appearing our group:




Delightful image! Thanks for adding this to …
<b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1153975@N22/pool/">"Worthies ... !: Fine Art Portraits in Public Places or Unknown Spaces"</a></b>
Please add tag <b> "Worthies"</b>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1153975@N22/"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/3004709644_bae91d9065_m.jpg" width="123" height="150" /></a>
<i>Enjoy Art Questing</i> for 'lost' fine art. Share clues, interpretations, etc.
<i>Help build</i> OUR <b>REGISTER OF CIVIC, ETC. PORTRAITS</b>,
INCLUDING <b>WORKS AT UNKNOWN SITES</b>




Next! : . . .
TO INVITE - AWARD A GREAT IMAGE TO OUR GROUP, USE OUR AWARD-INVITE ICON: -- which looks like:


Wonderful image. Our AWARD-INVITE. JOIN our FUN group + add images.
Share fine art portrait images [+ co-research sitter & artist info -- with others.]
Please OPEN *ALL SIZES* + ADD tag: "Worthies"
* Add names: sitters, artists + LIFE DATES, state if now "LOST" .

Discover Art Questing for 'lost' fine art, + help add to historic research.
Be a SLEUTH!!! Help identify portraits. Find bios, life-dates, birth sites, etc.
"Worthies ... !: Fine Art Portraits in Public Places or Unknown Spaces"
BE ACTIVE IN “WORTHIES”: QUEST &/ OR HELP BUILD MEMBERSHIP

Below is the code to use to add the above image and text when you wish to invite a portrait into our group:






Wonderful image. Our AWARD-INVITE. <b>JOIN</b> our FUN group + add images.
Share <i>fine art portrait images [+ co-research sitter & artist info -- with others.]</i>
Please OPEN <b>*ALL SIZES*</b> + ADD tag: <b> "Worthies"</b>
* Add names: <b>sitters, artists</b> + LIFE DATES, state if now <b>"LOST"</b> .
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1153975@N22/"> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3638/3608638723_76e9c60f90_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" " /><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/3600626926_544814deec_t.jpg" width="100" height="80" " /><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3644/3551902625_b8570bcca6_t.jpg" width="100" height="80"alt="Worthies" /></a>
<i>Discover Art Questing</i> for 'lost' fine art, + help add to historic research.
<b>Be a SLEUTH!!!</b> Help identify portraits. Find bios, life-dates, birth sites, etc.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1153975@N22/pool/">"Worthies ... !: Fine Art Portraits in Public Places or Unknown Spaces"</a>
<b>BE ACTIVE IN <i>“WORTHIES”:</i> QUEST &/ OR HELP BUILD MEMBERSHIP</b>





. Add the above "Worthies!" Award - Invite, with your comment, to invite quality images of life portraits [suitable for Public Buildings] to our exhibition.


This is a great opportunity for those whose specialty is in indoor still-life photographic images. More exciting still ... some of those neglected Community portrait images may be by respected and renowned celebrated artists! -- So rest assured ... our "Worthies" project has real potential to provide excellent professional engagements for some of you -- if you will formally suggest of the various Archivists of Borough Councils, Guildhalls, etc., that they employ your services as a quality still-life and / or live portrait photographer, to capture and preserve the images of all their new living heroes by a great portrait photographer, and/ or capture those historic heros on the corridor walls whose images need duplication, to share and deliver your evidence in photos of so many formerly missing and previously 'lost' past leaders! It all adds up to make you too, a "Worthy" portrait photographer.










If you have never ventured forth with camera to explore the local corridors of power, here's a group just begging to showcase your still-life studies of Local Historical portraits, to help your finest photography of the 'worthy-of-fame' to be better noticed!!!


HOWEVER, BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY ~ WE INVITE ALL TO QUEST AND DISCOVER OLD PORTRAITS WHICH AWAIT A NEW TIME OF FAME AND RENOWN


This is an informal Questing group -- for active volunteer Art Portrait seekers -- to enable all to collectively help build an online Registry of Portraits -- of the Leaders, and Living-legends of Yester-year -- from the Corridors of Civic authority, of City, Guild, Town or Community Hall, or Institute, Association, or other Public, semi-public or private site -- of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man, or Channel Isles, or other nations with a similar focus on the democratic themes of freedom of speech, open and transparent government, sustainable environment care, mature financial and business responsibility, plus humanitarian social considerations, including equality for women, quality public health and education, support for the disadvantaged, community service, volunteerism, charity, goodwill, fundraising and aid, and various other lifestyle improvement programs. From such bodies we seek mainly official and semi-formal portraits.


If you would like to "Quest", with us -- like Harry, Hermione and Ron, etc. -- for lost Art Portraits, then be sure to introduce yourself politely, and to:

a] add comments,
b] share photos of your own historic portraits of ancestors or hometown heroes, or civic local "Worthies",
c] add relevant 'Location' shots to build reality to our clues
d] add other images and ideas which could help us to find these works.

PLEASE BE ACTIVE ~ MOVE INTO FOCUS ~ LEARN TO PARTICIPATE





There's no time to hide in the shadows, or be 'camera shy' or 'reluctant', now ... We must all lift ourselves up to achieve our best. -- So please -- not a single passive member. MAKE THE EFFORT ~ SPEAK ~ BECOME FLUENT IN ENGLISH!!! No lurkers! -- Lurkers don't help build a group's mutually bonded activity. SO please act like a super-sleuth, or a trainee sleuth!!! -


First, get to know and understand the amazing history wiithin any portrait you share. ... Prepare a short history to share with us.

. Please exhibit your own long-forgotten celebrities here.
. Share their stories.
. Present your images with as much background as you can dig up, or care-to-share.
. Learn with us how to engage all your super-sleuth skills. Team up with likeminded researcher-photographers. [Invest in this process, to build your skills.]



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Counter installed early February 2010.