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Louis was the only child of Thomas and Maggie Stevenson of Edinburgh.

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There are also examples of the work Muybridge did up and down the Pacific coast for the national body in charge of lighthouses, including a sequence of unusual large-format seascapes completed in the 1870s, at precisely the time that Thomas Stevenson (father of Robert Louis) was designing his lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland.

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Auden, Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, and Louis MacNeice.

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Also on this level are seascapes by Winslow Homer, pictures by Thomas Eakins and James McNeill Whistler and stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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