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  • For the present state of that coast and country, the volume of Captain Beechey is full of interesting details.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Curator Chris Stephens who has edited the splendid catalog with James Beechey has chosen well.

    A Shortsighted View of Picasso Paul Levy 2012

  • We met other ships also searching for Franklin near Beechey Island which were preparing to winter over on that desolate shore.

    On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) belongs to what was once fondly called the "golden age" of British portrait painting – the age of Gainsborough, Northcote, Hoppner, Beechey and Reynolds.

    Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010

  • According to Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy, Horner "zombified" a portrait by Sir William Beechey (original to the right).

    Best of 2009 2010

  • The best thing about whom was his wife, the beautiful and talented Frances Anne Beechey.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Fred Beechey spent time in the Royal Navy, freezing in the Arctic with major explorers Franklin and Parry, getting trapped in the ice, and being attacked by walruses.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Perhaps this is why he left none of the brass message canisters behind on Beechey.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • The best thing about whom was his wife, the beautiful and talented Frances Anne Beechey.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Fred Beechey spent time in the Royal Navy, freezing in the Arctic with major explorers Franklin and Parry, getting trapped in the ice, and being attacked by walruses.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

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