Lord Peter Wimsey Lord Peter Wimsey Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Lord Peter is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter; his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker; and in a few books by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife. Born in 1890 and ageing in real time, Wimsey is described as being of average
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