The Admiral and the Detective: connecting challenges for the silly season!
This is really something of a silly season post in a way but also by way of saying Happy Birthday to vseeas well as she is someone who has feet in both matters Age of Sail and Holmesian. Have a good day vsee:)
Its all the fault of volgivagant who sometimes, just now and then, teases me that I could link anything to Ned Pellew and the Indy given six steps or so.As readers of this friends page may have noticed I have a foot in two fandoms LJ wise and so I have applied the challenge to the connection. What if anything connects Edward Pellew and the Indefatigable to the fictional hero of Baker Street? Well it runs like this: see under cut for sea pictures and connections.
Here is the Indy painted by John Serres as previously posted in features on him by anteros_lmc
John Serres was a marine painter and has connections not only to the Indy but to Ned in person as he worked on a huge wall painting commemorating Lord Exmouth's victory at Algiers.
John Serres was the godson of the french artist Claude Vernet, best friend of his father, Dominic Serres, who also painted many royal naval subjects.
Patrolling the Channel by Dominic Serres
Claude Vernet had a grandson,Emile Jean-Horace Vernet,also a celebrated painter - this time not of marine subjects but of oriental themes. Here he is in a self portrait,with rather outsize pipe.
and it is Horace Vernet's fictional sister who marries into an English county family and whose own grandsons are Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes as the detective tells Dr Watson in a discussion about inherited observational powers.
"art in the blood,Watson,takes the strangest forms"
Holmes in one of the defining images of him by the illustrator Sidney Paget. I court no controversy in choosing or ommitting any of his present incarnations, however pleasant might be gratuitous pictures of Messrs Downey,Cumberbatch and Lee Miller.
So that is it Pellew of the Indefatigable- John Serres- Vernet family-Sherlock Holmes-
any other connection trails anyone might like to start while August is on?
Its all the fault of volgivagant who sometimes, just now and then, teases me that I could link anything to Ned Pellew and the Indy given six steps or so.As readers of this friends page may have noticed I have a foot in two fandoms LJ wise and so I have applied the challenge to the connection. What if anything connects Edward Pellew and the Indefatigable to the fictional hero of Baker Street? Well it runs like this: see under cut for sea pictures and connections.
Here is the Indy painted by John Serres as previously posted in features on him by anteros_lmc
John Serres was a marine painter and has connections not only to the Indy but to Ned in person as he worked on a huge wall painting commemorating Lord Exmouth's victory at Algiers.
John Serres was the godson of the french artist Claude Vernet, best friend of his father, Dominic Serres, who also painted many royal naval subjects.
Patrolling the Channel by Dominic Serres
Claude Vernet had a grandson,Emile Jean-Horace Vernet,also a celebrated painter - this time not of marine subjects but of oriental themes. Here he is in a self portrait,with rather outsize pipe.
and it is Horace Vernet's fictional sister who marries into an English county family and whose own grandsons are Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes as the detective tells Dr Watson in a discussion about inherited observational powers.
"art in the blood,Watson,takes the strangest forms"
Holmes in one of the defining images of him by the illustrator Sidney Paget. I court no controversy in choosing or ommitting any of his present incarnations, however pleasant might be gratuitous pictures of Messrs Downey,Cumberbatch and Lee Miller.
So that is it Pellew of the Indefatigable- John Serres- Vernet family-Sherlock Holmes-
any other connection trails anyone might like to start while August is on?