Tag: Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn

Sophy Rickett’s missing women

November 17, 2019 0 Comments
Sophy Rickett’s missing women

At the centre of ‘The curious moaning of Kenfig Burrows’, Sophy Rickett’s collection of photographs in the Glynn Vivian Art Galley, is Cupid, a seventeenth century oil painting from the Gallery’s foundation collection.  It’s safe to say that this work hasn’t been seen by the public for many decades.  It’s attributed to an obscure Italian […]

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Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, selenophotographer

October 29, 2019 7 Comments
Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn, selenophotographer

If you visit the Penllergare Valley Woods, as we did last week, you can’t leave without developing a strong respect for the estate’s chief creator, John Dillwyn Llewelyn.  Photographic pioneer, astronomer, botanist, orchid collector, landscapist, inventor – he used his wealth, leisure and connections, after inheriting the estate as a boy from his grandfather in […]

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