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MARY COPELAND – VICTORIAN DETECTIVE: ALMA-TADEMA PART 3
As the previous two blogs showed, Lawrence Alma-Tadema was highly regarded during his lifetime. He sold his works for large sums. He once said that while painting he was an artist, but once the painti ........
WHY AM I WRITING MARY COPELAND?
People regularly ask me why I write these kinds of books. A detective, they understand that, but why set in the nineteenth century? In short, why am I writing Mary Copeland? I was asked that question ........
MARY COPELAND – VICTORIAN DETECTIVE: ALMA-TADEMA PART 2
As mentioned in my previous blog, I would tell you more about the famous painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema. From 1871 he got to know and was influenced by all the great Pre-Raphaelite painters. The man was ........
MARY COPELAND – VICTORIAN DETECTIVE: ALMA-TADEMA PART 1
The second story of the collection features a painting titled The Roses of Heliogabalus. It was painted by Lourens Alma-Tadema (Dronrijp, January 8, 1836 – Wiesbaden, June 25, 1912). This originally D ........
I PROMISED TO WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF
I promised to write something about myself and I will do that in this third blog. I was born in 1959 in Middelburg, the capital of the province of Zeeland, on the former island of Walcheren, and I liv ........
VICTORIAN PAINTERS: JOHN WATERHOUSE
In the first story of my book Mary Copeland: Victorian Detective, the main character comes into contact with John Waterhouse and his wife Esther Kenworthy. Waterhouse is a well-known painter of the la ........
MARY COPELAND: VICTORIAN DETECTIVE PUBLISHED
On June 30, my book Mary Copeland: Victorian detective was published. Of course I am very happy with that. As a Dutch author with more than eighty book titles to my name, it is quite special that a bo ........