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Vanitas Still-life with a Portrait of a Young Painter by David Bailly
Vanitas Still-life with a Portrait of a Young Painter by David Bailly (1651) Vanitas is an explicit genre of art in which the artist uses gloomy and moody symbolic objects in order that the viewer...
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George Bellows, his wife and children
Emma at the Piano by George Bellows (1914) George Bellow’s depiction of his wife sitting at the piano entitled Emma at the Piano was completed in 1914. It is a beautiful portrayal of his wife, dressed...
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Hyperrealism or Photorealism or Superrealism
Untitled (4 VWs) by Don Eddy (1971) Last week I decided to escape the cold and dreary weather of Britain. It can be so depressing to look out each day on black clouds, heavy rain and suffer the...
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Joaquín Sorolla (part 1)
Self Portrait by Joaquín Sorolla (1909) I have said on a number of occasions that when one is in a large city which has one or maybe two famous large art museums, and when one is time-limited, one...
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Joaquín Sorolla (part 2)
Portrait of Joaquín Sorolla by José Jiménez Aranda (1901) By 1885, Joaquín Sorolla had settled down to life in Rome but during that year he also spent the spring and summer in Paris. At this time in...
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Joaquín Sorolla (part 3)
In my final look at the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla I want to show you some of his portraiture work which featured his family and finally take a look at the house in which he and his family lived...
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The Mancorbo Canal in the Picos de Europa by Carlos de Haes (1876)
The Mancorbo Canal in the Picos de Europe by Carlos de Haes (1876) My Daily Art Display blog today incorporates the two things I enjoy most in art; landscape paintings and discovering a painter I had,...
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The Pastoral Scenes of Jan Siberechts
The Ford by Jan Sieberechts (1672)Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest My Daily Art Display today features the 17th century Flemish painter, Jan Siberechts. I will also look at some of Siberechts works and...
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Jan Siberechts English Country Houses and Landscapes
My Daily Art Display today continues examining the life of the seventeenth century Flemish painter Jan Siberechts and taking a look at some of the paintings he completed after he moved his home to...
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Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni by Domenico Ghirlandaio
Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1488) When you walk around an art gallery I wonder how long you spend in front of each painting. I suppose it depends on the...
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Portrait of an Infanta, Catherine of Aragon by Juan de Flandes
Portrait of an Infanta, Catherine of Aragon by Juan de Flandes (c.1496) Today, as promised, I am featuring another beautiful and yet quite simple portrait that I came across when visiting the...
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Niels Ryberg with his Son Johan Christian and his Daughter-in-Law Engelke,...
Niels Ryberg with his Son Johan Christian and his Daughter-in-Law Engelke, née Falb by Jens Juel (1797) My featured painting today is one I saw when I was in Copenhagen last week. It was a large...
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The Skagen Painters – Part 1: Mr and Mrs Ancher
Often in my blogs I have talked about artists’ colonies, places where artists congregated, visited and sometimes lived. In England, I looked at some artists who lived and painted in Newlyn and St...
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The Skagen Painters, Part 2 – Mr and Mrs Krøyer
Double Portrait of Maria and P.S. Krøyer by Maria and Peter Severin Krøyer (1890) As promised in my last blog featuring the Skagen husband and wife painters, Michael and Anna Ancher, My Daily Art...
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Part 1 Wall paintings
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1882)aged 58. In my previous couple of blogs I looked at two married couples, all four of whom were artists who based themselves around Copenhagen and the Skagen area of...
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The Poor Fisherman by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Poor Fisherman by Pierre Puvis de Chevannes (1881) My last blog looked at the early life of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes as well as feature a series of four large wall paintings he completed in the...
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Elderly Nude in the Sun by Mariano Fortuny
Mariano Fortuny My featured painting today is a reminder to me of the glorious and unexpected summer weather we have been having these last five weeks and the rejuvenation of my battered and old body...
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Susan Valadon, Part 1 – The early years
Suzanne Valadon aged 24 In my next few blogs I want to look at the life of a female who was both a great artist and artist’s model and whose name is synonymous with the artistic world of the late...
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Susan Valadon. Part 2 – The artist’s model
Suzanne Valadon In my last blog I looked at the early life and upbringing of my featured artist, Susan Valadon. She and her mother Madeleine had moved from Limoges and had come to live in the...
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Suzanne Valadon. Part 3 Pierre-August Renoir
Dance at Bougival by Renoir (1883)(featuring Suzanne Valadon and Eugene Pierre Lestringuez) I ended my last blog about Suzanne Valadon with her relationship with Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ended and...
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