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Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Part 1: 17th century gems.
In my last blog I looked at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon and talked about its founder Calouste Gulbenkian. In my next couple of blogs, I want to talk about my favourite paintings I saw in the...
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Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Part 2: 18th century gems.
Peacock and Hunting Trophies by Jan Weenix (1708) The first 18th-century painting housed in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian which I want to talk about is a still-life, entitled Peacock and Hunting...
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Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon: 19th century gems – Part 1.
Of all the paintings on view at the Founder’s Collection of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon I think my favourites where the section featuring the 19th century works. The Wreck of a Transport...
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Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon: 19th century gems – Part 2.
This is my last blog relating to Museu Calouste Gulbenkian and the paintings to be found in the Founder’ Collection and I have saved the best till last ! I wanted to take another look at the 19th...
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Léon-Augustin Lhermitte.
The artist I am looking at today is the French painter Léon-Augustin Lhermitte. I suppose his work could be categorised by three artistic terms: Naturalism, Realism and Ruralism, as he will probably...
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Hudson River School – The Hart family.
Part 1. William Hart “…Go first to Nature to learn to paint landscape, and when you shall have earnt to imitate her, you may then study the pictures of great artists with benefit . . . I would urge on...
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Hudson River School – The Hart family.
Part 2 – James McDougal Hart and family. James McDougal Hart The Hudson River School, as it has come to be termed, was founded by the painter Thomas Cole around 1825. Cole believed that nature...
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Hudson River School – The Hart Family
Part 3. Julie Hart “…Mrs. Julie Hart Beers Kempson became the only woman artist of the century to specialize in landscape. It is perhaps not surprising to find so few women landscapists, since the...
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Andreas Achenbach
Professor Andreas Achenbach on his 70th birthday by Heinrich von Angeli When I looked at the life of the Hudson River School painter, James McDougal Hart, I talked about his time at the Dusseldorf...
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Oswald Achenbach
Portrait of Oswald Achenbach by Ludwig des Coudres. (1847.) In Dusseldorf, on February 2nd 1827, Christine Achenbach gave birth to her fifth child, her son Oswald. His father, Hermann, was a...
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Melchior d’Hondecoeter
Melchior d’Hondecoeter Having a grandfather, father, and brother-in-law, who are accomplished artists must be a great benefit when considering your future occupation. My featured artist had all three...
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Alfred Sisley. Part 1: The early years.
1882 photograph of Alfred Sisley The artist I am looking at today is not one of my “unknown” painters I often showcase. This artist is well known and his works are in collections all around the world....
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Alfred Sisley. Part 2 – London and Paul Durand-Ruel
Alfred Sisley by Renoir (1876) The year is 1870 and on July 19th France had declared war on Prussia. The war went badly for France and the siege of the Paris ended in an armistice on January 28th...
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Alfred Sisley. Part 3 – the latter years.
1882 photograph of Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley returned to France late on October 18th, 1874 after his four-month summer holiday spent in London. Sisley had been living in the town of Louveciennes...
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Henry Ossawa Tanner. Part 1
Henry Ossawa Tanner. Paris 1907 In many of my previous blogs I have talked about youngsters, in centuries gone by, who had all the advantages needed to become an artist. They were male and did not...
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Henry Ossawa Tanner. Part 2.
The Resurrection of Lazarus, by Henry Ossawa Tanner(1897) The year is 1897, and Henry Tanner’s painting, The Resurrection of Lazarus, was exhibited at the Salon where it received a third-class medal....
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Walter Dendy Sadler
Walter Dendy Sadler It is difficult to categorise today’s featured artist. It is difficult to compartmentalise his style of paintings. He is a genre painter. He is a satirical painter. He is a...
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Léon Frédéric. Part 1. The Naturalist painter
Self Portrait by Léon Frédéric My chosen subject today is the life and works of a nineteenth century Belgian artist. He has been designated as a Symbolist painter and yet when I look at his work only...
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Léon Frédéric. Part 2. The Symbolist painter
Having looked at his Realism/Naturalism works in my previous blog, in this, the second of my blogs about the nineteenth century Belgian artist, Léon Frédéric, I want to concentrate on his work as a...
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William McTaggart. Part 1. The son of a Scottish crofter.
William McTaggart My featured artist today, William McTaggart, was born in the rural hamlet of Aros, in the parish of Campbeltown, a Scottish town on the Kintyre Peninsula, on October 25th, 1835. He...
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