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Annie Louisa Swynnerton. Part 3 -The later years and the Royal Academy
Portrait of Annie Swynnerton by Gwenny Griffiths (1928) In my third and final blog looking at the life and works of the talented Victorian artist, Annie Louise Swynnerton I wanted to firstly...
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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale My featured artist today is the Victorian painter Mary Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, one of the most popular artists of her time. She is perhaps best remembered for...
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Hannah Gluckstein (Gluck). Part 1 – the rebellious daughter
Often when I look at portraits I talk about the reason the background is plain so not to detract from the person being portrayed. My featured artist today was a person who wanted to be remembered for...
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Hannah Gluckstein (Gluck). Part 2 – Artistic success and acclaim
This portrait of Gluck in her artist’s smock, taken in 1926 when she was 31, was by Howard Coster, a self-styled “photographer of men.” Hannah Gluckstein left her family home in 1916 to go to Lamorna a...
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Hannah Gluckstein (Gluck). Part 3-Floral paintings and Constance Spry.
Gluck in the Gluck Room at The Fine Art Society In 1932, by the time Gluck was thirty-seven years old, life could not have been better. She lived in Bolton House in Hampstead village with its...
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Hannah Gluckstein (Gluck) – Part 4 – Nesta Obermer and the Fine Art Society...
Gluck in the Gluck Room at The Fine Art Society In November 1932, the Fine Art Society in New Bond Street, London, hosted Gluck’s much heralded third solo exhibition. Constance Spry decorated the Fine...
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Hannah Gluckstein (Gluck) – Part 5, the latter years and the Heald sisters
Portrait of Gluck (c.1924) by photographer, Douglas World War II started on September 3rd, 1939 and, by the end of that month Gluck’s Bolton House home had been commandeered by the Auxiliary Fire...
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry – animals and hunting scenes artist and so much more.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau. My last nine blogs focused on female artists and in many cases their fight for equality and so, for this blog, I thought I better give the men a...
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Grant Wood. Part 1. The early years of the American Regionalist painter
Self portrait by Grant Wood (1932) During their lifetime most artists paint hundreds of works of art but often, as far as the public are concerned, may just be famous for one of their works. Examples...
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Grant Wood. Part 2 – American Gothic and sister Nan
Grant Wood, Study for Self-Portrait, 1932, When Grant Wood spent time in Munich overseeing the production of stained glass for the memorial window for the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids he...
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Grant Wood. Part 3 – the latter years and rumours.
For many people the name Grant Wood is synonymous with the painting American Gothic but in fact he completed many more superb works of art and in this blog I will look at some of my favourites. Stone...
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The Philadelphia Ten. Part 1 – The beginnings and the facilitators.
Members of the Philadelphia Ten at their Art Club of Philadelphia exhibition, January 28 – February 11, 1928. A month ago, I looked at the life of English artist Louise Swinnerton and told of her...
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The Philadelphia Ten. Part 2-The artists
Members of the Philadelphia Ten at their Art Club of Philadelphia exhibition, January 28 – February 11, 1928. In my last blog I looked at the beginnings of the Philadelphia Ten and how it was made...
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Gustave Doré, the book illustrator.
Gustave Doré and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Paul-Gustave Doré The subject of my blog today reflects moments of my past life, from the days when I spent years journeying across the oceans and...
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The vanitas paintings of Evert Collier
Self-Portrait with a Vanitas Still-life by Evert Collier (1684) For those of you who have been following my blog over the years, you will know of my love of Flemish and Dutch art. Many of you would be...
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Mary Adshead – the great muralist.
Mary Adshead The artist I am showcasing today, Mary Adshead, was an exceptionally gifted person. She was an artist who moved seamlessly between easel painting and murals. She was a portrait painter....
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Hans Andersen Brendekilde
Hans Andersen Brendekilde As I have said before, I choose the subject for my blogs based on having sufficient information about the artist and also access to a large selection of his or her work....
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James Tissot. Part 1. The early years.
Self portrait by James Tissot (1885) My artist today is the French nineteenth century painter Jacques Joseph Tissot. In the introduction to Tissot’s biography by Christopher Wood, he writes: “…Tissot...
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James Tissot. Part 2- A change of style and japonisme
Self Portrait of James Jacques Joseph Tissot (c.1898) At the end of Part 1 of this blog about Tissot I told you that around 1863 he decided to change his artistic style. He decided to abandon his...
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James Tissot. Part 3 – Life in England
Young Lady in a Boat by James Tissot (1870) At the end of the 1860’s Tissot was still producing charming portraits of elegant young ladies. One such paintings were exhibited by Tissot in the 1870...
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