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Mr and Mrs Wachtel and their Californian dreams
Elmer Wachtel I often come into contact with American tourists who stay at my Bed & Breakfast and I always ask them where is the best place in America as far as climate is concerned and I nearly...
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Dosso Dossi. Part 1 – The Constabili Polyptych
In my last blog I looked at the lives of two American landscape artists, Marion and Elmer Wachtel and for many people outside of America these painters may have been completely unknown. Today in my...
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Dosso Dossi. Part 2 – The tale of the young man who was a famous lady and the...
Dosso Dossiself portrait The first painting of Dosso Dossi I want to showcase is one which is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. The gallery acquired the painting from a gallery in...
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Thomas Benjamin Kennington
In my next two blogs I am going to look at the lives and works of two English painters, the father, Thomas Benjamin Kennington and his son, Eric. Today I am going to concentrate and examine some of...
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Eric Henri Kennington. Part 1 – World War I and T.E.Lawrence
Photo of Eric Kennington by Howard Coster (1936) In my last blog I looked at the life and some of the paintings of Thomas Benjamin Kennington, the Victorian painter. Today, in the first of two...
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Eric Henri Kennington, Part 2 – the Second World War Artist
Eric Kennington (1926) At the end of Part 1 of this blog about Eric Henri Kennington we had reached a point in his life when he had travelled to Arabia to prepare sketches which would later be used in...
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Albert Joseph Moore. Part 1 – his early life and his talented family
Albert Joseph Moore c. 1870 The nineteenth century Swiss painter, Paul Klee, once said of a woman’s beauty: “…Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at...
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Albert Joseph Moore. Part 2 – his portrayal of women.
Albert Joseph Moore (c.1870) At the end of my last blog I had reached the point in Albert Moore’s life with him travelling to Rome with his brother John Collingham Moore just after his twenty-first...
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Henry Herbert La Thangue – the pictorial documenter of rural life
Henry Herbert La Thangue(photo c.1893) A few blogs ago I looked at the life and works of George Clausen and termed his art as rustic realism and today I want to delve into the life and the art work of...
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Mr and Mrs Wachtel and their Californian dreams
Elmer Wachtel I often come into contact with American tourists who stay at my Bed & Breakfast and I always ask them where is the best place in America as far as climate is concerned and I nearly...
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Dosso Dossi. Part 1 – The Constabili Polyptych
In my last blog I looked at the lives of two American landscape artists, Marion and Elmer Wachtel and for many people outside of America these painters may have been completely unknown. Today in my...
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Dosso Dossi. Part 2 – The tale of the young man who was a famous lady and the...
Dosso Dossiself portrait The first painting of Dosso Dossi I want to showcase is one which is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. The gallery acquired the painting from a gallery in...
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Thomas Benjamin Kennington
In my next two blogs I am going to look at the lives and works of two English painters, the father, Thomas Benjamin Kennington and his son, Eric. Today I am going to concentrate and examine some of...
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Eric Henri Kennington. Part 1 – World War I and T.E.Lawrence
Photo of Eric Kennington by Howard Coster (1936) In my last blog I looked at the life and some of the paintings of Thomas Benjamin Kennington, the Victorian painter. Today, in the first of two...
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Eric Henri Kennington, Part 2 – the Second World War Artist
Eric Kennington (1926) At the end of Part 1 of this blog about Eric Henri Kennington we had reached a point in his life when he had travelled to Arabia to prepare sketches which would later be used in...
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Albert Joseph Moore. Part 1 – his early life and his talented family
Albert Joseph Moore c. 1870 The nineteenth century Swiss painter, Paul Klee, once said of a woman’s beauty: “…Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at...
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Albert Joseph Moore. Part 2 – his portrayal of women.
Albert Joseph Moore (c.1870) At the end of my last blog I had reached the point in Albert Moore’s life with him travelling to Rome with his brother John Collingham Moore just after his twenty-first...
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Albert Joseph Moore. Part 3 – the conclusion.
Albert Joseph Moore (c.1870) The Aesthetic art movement thrived in Britain and America during the 1860s to the 1880s. The movement started in a small way in the studios and houses of a radical group...
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Vasily Perov, Part 1 – the critical realist
Portrait of Vasily Perov by Igor Kramskov (1881) For my blog today, I am returning to Russia and featuring one of its greatest nineteenth century artists, Vasily Grigoryevich Perov. He is known as one...
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Vasily Perov. Part 2 – portraiture and humour
Self-Portrait (1851) In my last blog I looked at Perov’s early life and his artwork which is often categorised as critical realism because of the way his paintings focused on the peasants and how they...
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