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Frits Thaulow. Part 2 – the realist landscape painter.
Frits Thaulow at work Many of Thaulow’s best known Norwegian scenes are from Åsgårdstrand, a town 100 km south of Oslo. It had become a significant centre for artists and painters from the 1880’s. The...
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Briton Rivière
Portrait of Briton Rivière by Philip Hermogenes Calderon Sentimentality in art was very popular during Victorian times. I have looked at many artists whose motifs often depicted “cute” little boys and...
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The Alma-Tadema Ladies. Part 1 – The Two Wives, Marie-Pauline...
Laurens Alma-Tadema (1870) In My Daily Art Display (June 21st, 2011) I wrote about the artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema and one of his paintings. My next two blogs are focusing on the some of the...
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The Alma-Tadema Ladies. Part 2 – The Two Daughters, Anna and Laurense.
(Detail from full-length portrait) Miss Anna Alma-Tadema by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1883) In my last blog I looked at the lives of Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s two wives, Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin de...
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Peder Mork Mønsted – The great Danish landscape artist.
By The River, Brondbyvester by Peder Mønsted (1922) Landscape and seascape painting must be the most popular art genre. Like all painting genres there are many good examples and some exceptional...
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Cecilia Beaux. Part 5 – Concarneau, the summer of 1888.
The Lady Artist by Charles “Shorty” Lasar ……………………..Cecilia Beaux and her cousin May Whitlock had arrived in Paris in the last week of January 1888. The weather had been typical January weather – wet,...
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Cecilia Beaux. Part 6 – Visits to England, the Return Home and Family Portraits.
Cecilia Beaux (c.1888) ……………….Cecilia Beaux finally returned to Paris in December 1888 after her summer in Concarneau and her six week European journey and the first thing she had to contend with was...
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Cecilia Beaux. Part 7 – The final years
Cynthia Sherwood by Cecilia Beaux (1892) Upon returning to the United States, Beaux became one of the most sought-after portraitists in Philadelphia and New York. One of the first paintings by Cecilia...
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Winter landscapes
For many of you, the sight of snow is a curse, for others it is a sight of wonderment. Maybe the falling of snow, like Christmas presents, is just a meaningful event for children. Many believe snow...
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The New Year Puzzle
I will start my first blog of 2018 with a question, a puzzle for you to solve. What is the connection between an anonymous group of feminist, female artists dressed up as gorillas, the twentieth...
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Eilif Peterssen
Self portrait by Eilif Peterssen (1876) My featured artist today is one who produced many paintings of differing genres, such as history paintings, landscape and seascape paintings and portraiture....
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Walter Langley the Social Realist painter and the Newlyn Art Colony
Walter Langley, from a chalk drawing by Hubert Vos. From Newlyn and the Newlyn School, Magazine of Art, 1890 In eighteenth century France, Rococo was the popular style of art. Painters such as Antoine...
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Daniel Ridgway Knight
Daniel Ridgway Knight (c.1908) In my last blog I looked at the life and works of the Social Realist painter Walter Langley and his depictions of the hard life endured by the Cornish fishermen and their...
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John Bauer and Ester Ellqvist
John Bauer Self Portrait (1908 – Volterra, Italy) I suppose everybody at some time or other has read or had read to them a children’s fable or fairy tale. As a child we would have been fascinated by...
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Jules-Louis Ernest Meissonier – Part 1.
The Wallace Collection, London When I go to a large town or city I tend to try and visit the local art gallery/museum. The trouble with these establishment in major cities such as London, New York,...
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John-Louis Ernest Meissonier – Part 2
The Siege of Paris in 1870 by Ernest Meissonier 1874 ……………………Paris under siege, this time, not by its own people, but by the Prussians, as it was pictorially recorded in Meissonier’s 1884 painting, Le...
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The Krohg Family – Part 1 – Christian Krohg. The early years and life at Skagen
Christian Krohg The art of one of the painters I am looking at today was compartmentalised as being works of a Naturalism genre and also of a Realism genre. So what is Naturalism and how does it differ...
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The Krohg Family. Part 2 – Oda Krohg the Bohemian Princess
Self Portrait by Oda Krohg (1892) I start this second blog about the Krohg family by delving back in history….. Christian Fredrik Jacob von Munthe af Morgenstierne was a descendent of Bredo Munthe of...
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Annie Louise Swynnerton. Part 1 – the early years.
Portrait of Annie Swynnerton by Gwenny Griffiths (1928) The media these days is full of articles and comments about the lack of equality suffered by women in all walks of life. One hopes that it is not...
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Annie Louisa Swynnerton. Part 2 – the middle years and marriage.
Charles Barry’s Royal Manchester Institution is now Manchester Art Gallery After two years in Europe Annie Swynnerton and Isabel Dacre returned to Manchester. Manchester had two very important...
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