His works inspired by Margate include "The Old Pier", an oil painting from 1804, and "Sunrise with Sea Monsters" in 1846.

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Inside the golden domed State House on Beacon Hill is an oil painting of Romney with a copy of a bill decorated in a medical symbol beside a portrait of his wife Ann.

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Mitchelson and Sit have the portfolio manager titles, but stock picking is really done at weekly five-hour gabfests where 12 people gather around a big jar of jelly beans in Sit Investment Associates' cozy conference room adorned with bamboo wallpaper and an oil painting of foggy mountains west of Shanghai.

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It was owned by the artist's descendent and described by Christie's as an "iconic late oil painting".

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Gandhi is an avid scholar of the arts, and holds a degree in oil painting conservation.

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La Tour's oil painting "The Fortune Teller" (circa 1630) captures the onlookers' fascination with an exotic-looking gypsy fortune teller, but also a wariness.

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