O wow, I just read your blog post and I'm getting the chills:
"Was it perhaps a philosophical gesture? A reference to the giant on the frontispiece of Hobbes’ Leviathan?"

I belief we might look at Spinoza in his late twenties here. The engraving in the Opera Posthuma is considered the most (and only?) reliable portrait of Spinoza and I mirrored it (because engraving) for comparison. I have further reasons for considering it a serious option. What do you think? #TEFAF

Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630-1708), op een portret door mogelijk Luttichuys, 1660s — bij Dickinson Gallery, TEFAF 2025.

Victoria Welby, ‘The Clock Dial’ (1892 [1887])
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Victoria Welby, ‘The Word’, ‘Deafness and Blindness’, ‘Pain to Refuse and Pain to Accept’ (1886)
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Victoria Welby, ‘Three Parables’ (1890)
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Henri Borel on Victoria Welby
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‘Victoria, Lady Welby. An ethical mystic’ (Lucy Clifford, 1924)
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An early Dutch appreciation of Victoria Welby’s “Grains of Sense”
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Thomas J. McCormack, review of Grains of Sense (1897) [Victoria Welby]
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[J.A. Spender,] ‘The Late Victoria Lady Welby’ (1912)
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Started a substack and will post some copies of previous articles first, we'll see if and how it develops.
Edw. Winton, ‘The Late Victoria, Lady Welby’ (1912)
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