It was the abode of William, 4th Baron Byron – a popular amateur composer and artist – and his teenage wife Frances. Although over the years I have changed subject matter, I have always maintained an interest in the use of colour and light and find it amazing how one person can view a colour so differently from another, and the fact that we have limited colour vision – what are we missing? Her particular areas of expertise include unlocking wealth concealed in business assets, or protecting wealth that is exposed, from undue risk. Emily Brand is advising the wife in her high-stakes divorce settlement with her former husband, a multi-millionaire with significant business interests and high social standing.

She advises on cases involving family businesses or private equity and has worked on several ground-breaking cases.She has written for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Radio Times and Washington Post, and previously worked as an editor of history and classic literature for the University of Oxford. The book also touches on a variety of other elements of social and cultural history, including theatre, education, medicine and illness, and the role of women. Please do contact me to enquire about the cost of prints and I will happily do a free quote for you. Emily Brand leads an excellent team at Boodle Hatfield LLP, which ‘ combines blue-sky thinking with sound commercial knowledge‘. Byron’s inheritance of the dilapidated family seat as a child may be a familiar story, but reading about it after learning of the trials and tribulations of his ancestors provides a different and somewhat melancholy perspective.

Her work takes her from the chat up lines of Restoration libertines to Georgian sex manuals and the novels of Jane Austen. The matter includes complex wealth evaluation and liquidity issues linked to the husband’s position as the sole shareholder of multi-million company. I also enjoyed learning more about Byron’s father, John ‘Mad Jack’ Byron (son of ‘Foul-Weather Jack’). She focuses on high-level financial work where assets are often ‘in the region of hundreds of millions’ and include complex international businesses, private equity and trust structures.

Harriet Errington has led on a number of substantial family matters for a mixture of UK and international clients, while Alexandra Hirst represents clients on cases with complex asset structures and offshore elements. I take part in The Catford Arts trail annually and in the last few years have been placed at Ninth Life (a pub in Catford) and I help to run the annual art exhibition at Beckenham Place Mansion, which is part of the park’s annual flower show. I qualified as a primary school teacher in 2003 and then worked at Horniman Primary school for the next 13 years.

Brand’s delectable family biography… traces the many ways that historical events cut across their lives, complete with observations from family acquaintances Horace Walpole and Samuel Johnson. Rather, Brand’s story brings to the forefront a series of eccentric and fascinating figures who each have their own remarkable stories, but who have perhaps since been eclipsed by the reputation of their more famous descendant. One of the most memorable and affecting sections of the book is the account of his experiences when he was stranded with his crew in South America after the wreck of the HMS Wager in 1741. Her pandemic-published first major work, The Fall of the House of Byron , was selected as BBC Radio 4’s 'Book of the Week', and as a 'Book of the Year' by the The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine.She advises UHNW individuals on cases involving complex assets and structures including family businesses, offshore trusts, private equity and hedge funds. clients adore her and she's also no-nonsense; she's very good at giving realistic and proper advice to clients in a very palatable way, which is a bit of an art'.

She is also a gifted storyteller, employing a variety of devices familiar from fiction which keep the reader’s attention and form a compelling story. She is highly attuned to the need for complete discretion and negotiations taking place ‘behind closed doors’. These financial results come as the firm closes its 300th year in business – making this the best year on record. Just as it had shocked the society of Georgian London, the story of the Byrons, and the folklore of their outlandish scandal, would his influence his life and poetry for posterity.

A story of sex and scandal, but also of the fragility of life, the unyielding passion of the human heart, and the oppressive weight of the past. With Emily on your side you feel as if you have an advantage over the other side even before the case begins. Although I loved teaching, I was finding it impossible to do anything else and had only painted 8 paintings in the period that I worked there.