Can you tell me anything about these dapper gents?

Jon Spacie says: Here is a photograph that I inherited many years ago from a local man whose family and mine crossed in earlier times. He wrote on the face that the woman was Elizabeth Spacie born Ast

Q Here is a photo (Figure 1) of my great-grandfather George Brighty Pumfrett, taken whilst he was serving as an Officer with the 17th Lancers. The image is taken from a glass plate which my father had

I regularly read Family Tree magazine and am always fascinated with the old family photos analysed in Photo Corner. This digitised old photo, which was sent to me some time ago by a relative, portrays

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

Q My ancestor, Charles Hayes, was born on 6 October 1700 in Harrow on the Hill to Charles Hayes and Ann Ewster. He attended University College Cambridge and, described as “one of the Gentlemen of the

One day this month saw the sale of the medals of a naval war hero and the collection of a long-serving art critic with a keen eye for pictures