A Presumption of Death A Presumption of Death A Presumption of Death is a Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on "The Wimsey Papers" by Dorothy L. Sayers. The novel is Walsh's first original Lord Peter Wimsey novel, following "Thrones, Dominations", which Sayers left as an unfinished manuscript, and was completed by Walsh. "A Presumption of Death" is written by Walsh, except for excerpts from "The Wimsey Papers". Harriet, Lady Peter Wimsey, has evacuated her family to the Wimseys' country house, Talboys in Hertfordshire, taking her two children, along with the three children of her sister-in-law, Lady Mary,
The Painter's Honeymoon The Painter's Honeymoon The Painter's Honeymoon is a painting by Lord Frederic Leighton, produced in "c." 1864 and currently housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This is an interesting composition for Leighton, who usually veered towards Classical images and, in particular, favored nudes - the latter were so prolific in his work that many of his pictures had to be removed from the 1857 exhibition of English art that toured America, because they gave offense. The Italian man who sat for the newly married painter occurs often in Leighton's work: he was apparently one of the artist's favorite