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The Tretyakov Portraits. Part 3.
The portraiture of Valentin Serov. Valentin Serov In today’s blog I want to look at another artist who has many of his works of art featured in the Tretyakov Gallery, including a number of portraits....
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The Tretyakov Portraits. Part 4
The portraiture of Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy Russian Stamp from 2012 celebrating 175th anniversary of Kramskoy’s birth My third look at portraiture exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery features the work...
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The Tretyakov Gallery – My favourites.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. The Tretyakov Gallery is one of the world’s richest museums, a veritable treasure house of the finest works of Russian and Soviet art. In all, there are in excess of...
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Alfred Robert Quinton, the chocolate box painter.
People’s taste in art is a very personal thing. What some of us like is anathema to others. The main consideration when we choose our favourite paintings or favourite artist should be that they or...
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Agnès Boulloche and her surrealist world.
Agnès Boulloche My last blog was about the painter Alfred Robert Quinton and his artwork which was perceived to be “chocolate-boxy” and kitsch and yet, I believe was a charming window on beautifully...
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Francis Danby. Part 1, the early days.
Francis Danby My featured artist today is the Irish-born painter Francis Danby who was one of twins born in the small village of Killinick, just south of the county town of Wexford, on November 16th...
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Francis Danby. Part 2.
Financial problems, plagiarism and marital difficulties. Francis Danby In 1821, Francis Danby fathered a fourth son, Thomas, and the family were still living in the Bristol suburb of Kingsdown. Aross...
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Elisabeth Chaplin
Elisabeth Chaplin The artist I am looking at today is the French-born painter, Elisabeth Chaplin. She was born in Fontainebleau, France on October 17th 1890. Her father was William Chaplin and her...
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The artists of the Norwich School of Painters. Part 1 – John Sell Cotman.
John Sell Cotman by his son, Miles Edmund Cotman In the art world one often hears about Schools. Not just meaning art establishments but denoting a group of artists who work from a specific location....
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The artists of the Norwich School of Painters. Part 2 – John Crome
Portrait of John Crome, by Michael William Sharp One of the founding members of the Norwich School of Painters was John Crome. Crome would become one of the three great landscape painters who came from...
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazosky
Self-portrait of Ivan Aivazosky (1874) Two weeks ago, I went on a four-day city break to Moscow. I had always wanted to visit the Russian capital and especially visit the famous Tretyakov Gallery which...
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Ivan Aivazovsky. Part 2. The Master of seascapes.
In the first part of my blog featuring the Russian seascape and marine painter, Ivan Aivazovsky I concentrated on his seascapes and marine paintings which, on the whole, depicted calm and idyllic seas....
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Nikolai Ghe and Konstantin Flavitsky
The Tale of Two Deaths In the early days of this blog I would just write about a single painting, its history, its hidden meaning and just a little about its creator. Later I changed the format and...
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Luigi Loir
The painter of Parisian boulevards. Luigi Loir My featured artist today lived in Paris during the Belle Epoch. The Belle Epoch was that period in time in France, between the end of the Franco-Prussian...
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Julien and Thérèse Dupré – father and daughter Ruralist painters.
Julien Dupré What do we want from a depiction in a painting? Do we want absolute truth? For example, should a portrait be of hyper-realsitic quality so it almost look like a photograph or should the...
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William Sergeant Kendall
William Sergeant Kendall Almost four years ago, when I was looking at the life of the French artist Balthus, I included some of his works of art featuring nude young girls. This was part of his main...
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Albert Herter. Part 1
Albert Herter One’s upbringing surely plays a big part in how we develop. Often, we follow in the footsteps of our parents and soon what was there chosen occupation, becomes ours. Financial stability...
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Albert Herter. Part 2 – The muralist.
Albert Herter Although Albert Herter was recognized as an “easel painter” who concentrated on portraiture and floral still lifes, he had always loved mural painting, a specialization he began early in...
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Antonio Villares Pires.
O Templo do Tempo Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio (1601) London National Gallery. For many of you who have visited the National Gallery in London, you will be aware of the daily lunchtime lectures....
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The Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
My eight-week holiday in the sun on the picturesque Algarve coast has come to an end and I have now returned to the gales and rain back home. Whilst away I had no real quiet time to concentrate on...
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