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Elizabeth Nourse. Part 1.
Self portrait by Elizabeth Nourse (1892) My featured artist today is the American realist-style genre, portrait and landscape painter Elizabeth Nourse, who was hailed by her fellow artists as “the...
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Elizabeth Nourse. Part 2.
Elizabeth Nourse(1859-1938) In April 1893, Elizabeth and Louise Nourse returned to Cincinnati as they had become aware that their sister Adelaide was seriously ill with consumption. At this time there...
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Grace Carpenter Hudson and the Pomo Indians
Grace Carpenter Hudson One of the pleasures of writing my blog is that I am constantly discovering artists I had previously never heard of. Along the way, there are also many other discoveries, which...
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Cornelis Zitman – sculptor extraordinaire.
Casa de Iberoamerica- Sala de exposiciones. Today’s is a shorter blog. It is going to be an unusual blog for me as I am not showcasing an artist or a painting. I am going to look at the work and the...
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Julia Beck, the Swedish Impressionist
Julia Augusta Lovisa Beck. The blog today features the very talented nineteenth century Swedish female landscape and portrait painter, Julia Augusta Lovisa Beck. The Artist, Julia Beck by Richard Bergh...
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Harriet Backer. Part 1 – The early years
Harriet Backer My blog today continues to look at the life and works of nineteenth-century female Scandinavian artists. In my last blog about the Swedish painter, Julia Beck, I talked about her time...
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Harriet Backer. Part 2 – The later years.
Chez Moi by Harriet Backer (1887) Harriet Backer’s younger sister, Agathe Ursula, became a much-heralded concert pianist and composer, who at the age of twenty-eight, married the conductor and singing...
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Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin. Part 1 – The start of the artistic journey.
In my last few blogs I have concentrated on lesser-known artists but for the next few blogs I will be delving into the life and works of one of the greatest French artists of the eighteenth century....
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Part 2 – Marriage and early still-life paintings.
Portrait of Marguerite Saintard by Chardin Chardin’s road towards married life was a protracted one. The love of his life was Marguerite Saintard, the daughter of Simon-Louis Saintard, a Parisian...
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Part 3 – Retours de chasse and Genre works.
During the last years of the 1720’s and the early part of the 1730’s Chardin completed many paintings which were termed as retours de chasse, literally meaning returns from the hunt, paintings which...
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Part 4. The second Mme. Chardin and scenes of...
Chardin was taken seriously ill, both physically and mentally in 1742. It was probable that his temporary decline in health was due to the extreme sadness he suffered due to the passing of his loved...
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Part 5 – Finances and portraiture.
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Chardin by Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1760) Over the last few blogs about the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, I have looked at his still-life works which he...
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Eilert Adelsteen Norman – The Norwegian Fjord painter.
If you are a lover of landscape paintings. If you have ever been seduced by the dramatic beauty nature offers up. If you have ever dreamt about cruising along a Norwegian fjord then this blog is...
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John William Waterhouse. Part 1
John William Waterhouse (c.1886) The artist I am looking at in my next series of blogs is the very popular late 19th and early 20th-century British painter, John William Waterhouse, who was best known...
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John William Waterhouse. Part 2.
Marriage and women destined to suffer. Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by John William Waterhouse (1885) In 1883 John William Waterhouse married Esther Maria Kenworthy, a noted flower painter. She was...
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John William Waterhouse. Part 3
Sorceresses and a tale from Homer. Despite Waterhouse marrying his wife Esther in a Church of England church and attending services there, he continued to be fascinated by the occult and magic rituals....
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John William Waterhouse. Part 4.
Dolce Far Niente, Tennyson and Herrick John William Waterhouse (c.1886) In the last blog on John William Waterhouse I looked at his paintings which focused on sorcery, sorceresses and Homer’s famous...
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John William Waterhouse. Part 5.
Sirens, mermaids, nudes and controversy In my last look at John William Waterhouse’s life and artwork I am reverting to his love of mythological subjects and his love of women regaled in verse by...
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The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. If I was to ask you to name one famous museum of art in Russia I think most of you would give me the Hermitage in St Petersburg but actually the State Tretyakov Gallery...
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The Tretyakov Portraits. – Part 2
The portraiture of Ilya Repin Self portrait by Ilya Repin (1878) This is my first blog in a series which looks at Russian portraiture on display at the Tretyakov Gallery. As I wrote in my previous blog...
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