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    Treasures from The Lant Collection: Dr. Jeffrey Lant, Founder. Vol. 1: Treasures From The Lant Collection
    Treasures from The Lant Collection: Dr. Jeffrey Lant, Founder. Vol. 1: Treasures From The Lant Collection
    Treasures from The Lant Collection: Dr. Jeffrey Lant, Founder. Vol. 1: Treasures From The Lant Collection
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    Treasures from The Lant Collection: Dr. Jeffrey Lant, Founder. Vol. 1: Treasures From The Lant Collection

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    First volume of "Treasures from The Lant Collection". Dr. Jeffrey Lant, Founder.

    - One of the most personal book ever written on art, artifacts, auctions, conservators, and the great yarns that constitute the better part of provenance.


    - Written by a man who has been privileged to visit many of the world's great museums.


    - A man who has had an interested in arts, its attributions, conservations, and sheer beauties since he was a young boy.


    - What was written here is the result of constant exploration, research, gut hunches, and downright blind luck.

    Dr. Lant can honestly say he has enjoyed every moment in his quest to find not just objects of beauty, but objects of history, often fleshed out by himself, who is, after all, a history Ph.D. from Harvard.

    Now dig in, for what follows will sure to delight you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeffrey Lant
    Release dateNov 20, 2016
    ISBN9781536583649
    Treasures from The Lant Collection: Dr. Jeffrey Lant, Founder. Vol. 1: Treasures From The Lant Collection
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    Jeffrey Lant

    Dr. Jeffrey Lant is known worldwide. He started in the media business when he was 5 years old, a Kindergartner in Downers Grove, Illinois, publishing his first newspaper article. Since then Dr. Lant has earned four university degrees, including the PhD from Harvard. He has taught at over 40 colleges and universities and is quite possibly the first to offer satellite courses. He has written over 50 books, thousands of articles and been a welcome guest on hundreds of radio and television programs. He has founded several successful corporations and businesses including his latest at …writerssecrets.com His memoirs “A Connoisseur’s Journey” has garnered nine literary prizes that ensure its classic status. Its subtitle is “Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy.” A good read by this man of so many letters. Such a man can offer you thousands of insights into the business of becoming a successful writer. Be sure to sign up now at www.writerssecrets.co

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      Treasures from The Lant Collection - Jeffrey Lant

      Contents

      Preface .................................................................................................................................................... 3

      Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 4

      CHAPTER 1  Creme de la Creme ............................................................................................................... 8

      CHAPTER 2  The Naked Truth. William Etty, R.A. and me. ....................................................................... 13

      CHAPTER 3  Kaffee ole' .......................................................................................................................... 17

      CHAPTER 4  Some Like it Hot ................................................................................................................. 19

      CHAPTER 5  Yo, el Rey. A portrait of King Ferdinand VII of Spain. "Cowardly, selfish, grasping, 

      suspicious, and vengeful". ..................................................................................................................... 22

      CHAPTER 6  They caw their lamentations in the eerie trees. A pair of Russian ormolu and  patinated-

      bronze twin branch candelabra circa 1810............................................................................................. 27 CHAPTER 7  Dinner at Eight. Osenat lots 201, 202, and 203. Ou la la. .................................................... 32

      CHAPTER 8  The one that got away. ...................................................................................................... 35

      CHAPTER 9  Chaconne a son gout ......................................................................................................... 37

      CHAPTER 10  Rule, Britannia. ................................................................................................................ 41

      About the Author .................................................................................................................................. 43

      SPECIAL WRITERS SECRETS CATALOG .................................................................................................... 44

      Preface

      Dear friends and fellow connoisseurs. It is with the very greatest joy and happiness that I welcome you to the first volume of Treasures from The Lant Collection.

      This may well be the most personal book ever written on art, artifacts, auctions, conservators, and the great yarns that constitute the better part of provenance. As you will see from the introduction that follows, I have been interested in arts, its attributions, conservations, and sheer beauties since I was been a boy in Illinois. 

      I have been privileged to visit many of the world's great museums, where at closing time you'll find me saying Just one more! Let me look at just one more! I am the most fervent of visitors. 

      I have dedicated this volume to my mother, Shirley de Lauing Phelps, Baroness de Barlais y de Kesoun in her own right, Crusader titles dating from the Second  Crusade in the 12th century. 

      If it hadn't been for her...

      What I have written here is the result of constant exploration, research, gut hunches, and downright blind luck. I can honestly say I have enjoyed every moment in my quest to find not just objects of beauty, but objects of history, often fleshed out by me, for I am, after all, a history Ph.D. from Harvard.

      Now dig in, for what follows will delight you. However, keep this in mind. This  is Volume 1 of a series which will reach many volumes, and you must be  registered with me to receive periodic notification of new items, new  descriptions, new findings, and new joy. To do so, simply go to my Facebook 

      Group Monarchy & Royalty Forum at: http://www.facebook.com/groups/ofRoyalty

      Introduction

      The making of a connoisseur. Of heart, of mind, of eye. 

      by  Dr. Jeffrey Lant

      Author's program note. This is a story about high standards in an age that regularly outrages them. It is the story of painstaking care in the era of fast and slovenly. It is the story of masters and their punctilious craftsmanship... and of our age which has raised mediocrity to the apogee. It is the story of man at his best... and at his worst and the eye that tells us which is which... and how to perceive what one sees.

      This is the story of excellence... of discernment... of discrimination... and of one man's epic journey to know what is truth and beauty... and then find them in a world too harried and beset by troubles even to wonder, always making do with less, always pretending otherwise.

      For this journey, made by so few amongst the unknowing many, I have chosen Elgar, Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), a man whose genius gave thrilling sound to the empire on which the sun never set. He dreamt the dreams that turned ideas in his mind into the cadences that define imperial glory to this day.

      Thus, for this article I have selected his Imperial March (1897). Go now to any search engine. Find it... listen to it without any interruption permitted... and whilst you are listening ask what you have done lately to sharpen your standards... to know what shows the hand of a master (and what doesn't). In short, what have you done to join the elite ranks of the crucial people, the people who have created civilization and sustain it, the people known as connoisseurs, the people who never accept anything but excellence for that is what the life worth living, worth striving for must be about.

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