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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Part 5. Clouds and marine paintings
If there is one other thing I have learnt since taking an interest in art is that by reading up on the paintings and the artists one learns a lot about history, whether it be European or American. One...
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Thorolf Holmboe
Thorolf Holmboe In past blogs I have looked at some of the well known Norwegian painters such as Edvard Munch, Thomas Fearnley, Johan Christian Dahl and Peder Balke. In today’s short blog I am going...
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Goethe – His family, his early life and his loves
Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Georg Oswald May (1779) In nearly all my previous blogs I have either featured a single painting or a single artist but this blog is different as I am...
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Two Mallorcan artists – Coll Bardolet and Miró.
During the last seven days I have been soaking up the sun and heat of Mallorca and now, whilst sheltering from the continual rain, I thought I would look at two artists who had an attachment to this...
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and the Biedermeier era
Portrait of the fictitious character Gottlieb Biedermeier from the Munich Fliegende Blatter My blog today starts with a caricature of Gottlieb Biedermeier. Gottlieb is not the artist of the day. He...
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Alice Neel. Part 1 – The early days
Alice Neel (1900 – 1984) My artist today is a twentieth century American artist, who although maybe not as well known as Georgia O’Keeffe or Frida Kahlo, was once described as one of the great...
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Alice Neel. Part 2 – First true love, heartbreak and dark days
Photograph of Alice Neel titled Alice Enríquez 1929. Alice’s love of art and her determination ensured she did well gaining a number of awards for her portraiture. In the summer of 1924 she attended...
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Alice Neel. Part 3 – The men in her life – Kenneth Doolittle, John Rothschild...
Alice Neel Alice Neel was finally released from hospital in September 1931, almost thirteen months after her initial breakdown. Once discharged from hospital she reacquainted herself with her friend...
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Alice Neel. Part 4 – José Santiago Negrón
Alice Neel (1900–1984) was one of the most significant American painters of the 20th century. Her psychologically charged portraits tell intimate and unconventional stories, as much about people living...
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Alice Neel. Part 5. Sam Brody, the new man in her life, family portraits and...
It is almost five weeks since I published Alice Neel. Part 4 and the reason for the delay was not my lost interest in the subject but having to suffer the trauma of house moving! – – – – – – – – – – –...
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Alice Neel. Part 6. The latter years
Alice Neel(1900-1984) Alice Neel had been receiving money for her involvement with the Works Project Administration (WPA). The WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency,...
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Adriaen van de Velde. Part 1 – Family and early influences.
I think I have already mentioned, on more than one occasion, that of all the different eras in art, my favourite is seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish art with some of my favourite artists, Jan...
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Adriaen van de Velde. Part 2 – beachscapes and landscapes
In my second blog on the seventeenth century Dutch artist, Adriaen van de Velde I want to look at his landscape and beachscape paintings. The Beach at Scheveningen by Adriaen van de Velde (1658)...
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Hendrick Willem Mesdag. Part 1 – The early years, family and influences
Hendrik Willem Mesdag If you are a young aspiring artist I wonder what your dreams are. You obviously hope that your painterly skills will improve over the following years. Maybe you dream that your...
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Part 2 – his wife, Sientje Mesdag van Houten.
Sientje Mesdag van Houten (c.1905) My blog today is somewhat shorter than usual as I decided to concentrate solely on the life and works of Hendrik Mesdag’s wife Sientje van Houten, an artist in her...
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Part 3. Bomschuiten, Storms and Panorama Mesdag
Hendrik Willem Mesdag by Hendrik Johannes Haverman Following his visit to the Frisian island of Nordeney in the summer of 1868, Hendrik Mesdag would dedicate the rest of artistic life to seascapes and...
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Eugène Galien-Lalou – the painter of Paris
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1920) La Belle Époque, which literally means “Beautiful Age” is a name given in France to the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and the start of World War I...
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Gerda Gottlieb and Einar Wegener
Gerda and Einar The artist I am looking at today was unknown to me. The more I read about her the more I realise I should have been aware of her especially after the recent publicity. Howeve,r so...
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Louis-Léopold Boilly
Self-portrait by Léopold Boilly (1805) My artist today is the prolific late eighteenth century French painter Louis-Léopold Boilly, who was best known for his genre scenes featuring life in the French...
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The Wilson and the Ferrieres Collection
The WilsonCheltenham Museum and Art Gallery When I have to travel to meetings in the UK and have an overnight stay, I try and go to local art galleries and see what is on offer. I am often somewhat...
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