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Adolphe-William Bouguereau. Part 2 – The painter of Religious Scenes and his...
Photograph of William Bouguereau (c.1870) My blog today looks at another of Bouguereau’s great history paintings. This is one of his religious works and has all the ferocity of his painting Dante and...
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Adolphe-William Bouguerau. Part 3. A change of genre
Rest in Harvest by William Bouguereau (1865) This is my third and final look at the life and works of the Classical French artist, Adolphe-William Bouguereau. In Part 1, I looked at his History...
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Elizabeth Jane Gardner – the resolute and tenacious artist.
Elizabeth Jane Gardner by William Bouguereau (1879) The artist I am looking at today is the American, Elizabeth Jane Gardner. If you read my last blog, which was the conclusion of the life of the...
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Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero As we are in the middle of holiday celebrations I thought I would lighten my blog with an artist whose works always bring a smile to my face. He is very popular, extremely talented and...
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Beryl Cook and her voluptuous women
Beryl Cook If you were to decide to hang another picture on one of your walls of your abode, I wonder what you would decide to display. I wonder how you would come to your decision. Would you hang a...
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The prints and paintings of Sydney Lee
Sydney Lee by Walter Benington (c 1920) The artist I am featuring today is the Englishman, Sydney Lee, who was much-admired for his paintings and prints of landscapes and architectural subjects. He...
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Pere Borrell del Caso and trampantojo
Pere Borrell del Caso “…Everything that deceives may be said to enchant…” – Plato Have you ever...
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Gabriel Metsu. Part 1 – Early life and The Letter
A Hunter Getting Dressed after Bathing by Gabriel Metsu (c.1654) In A Hunter Getting Dressed after Bathing (above), Gabriel Metsu depicted himself as a nobleman and hunter, but of course the unusual...
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Gabriel Metsu. Part 2 – his later life and paintings
Portrait of the Artist with His Wife Isabella de Wolff in a Tavern by Gabriel Metsu (1661) In my last blog I looked at the early life of Gabriel Metsu and had reached the year 1651, the year in which...
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Csontváry – The troubled artistic genius from Hungary
Self portrait by Csontváry (c.1900) The thing that brings me the greatest pleasure about writing this blog is that I am constantly unearthing artists whom I had not heard of before. My blog today is...
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Alexandre-François Desportes. The Animal and Still Life painter.
Alexandre-François Desportes When I looked at works by Gabriel Metsu in a recent blog I featured a couple of scenes which depicted hunters. Scenes with hunters were very popular at the time especially...
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Camille-Joseph-Étienne Roqueplan
Camille-Joseph-Étienne Roqueplan My featured artist today is the 19th century French Romantic painter and lithographer, Camille-Joseph-Étienne Roqueplan . He was born in the small town of Mallemort...
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Anne Vallayer-Coster. The Queen of Floral Still-Life works
Anne Vallayer-Coster At the end of 1362 the Florentine writer, Giuseppe Boccaccio, he of The Decameron fame, (see my Daily Art Display Feb 21st 2012), had completed his book, De mulieribus claris (Of...
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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Self portrait of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard ) In my last blog I looked at the life of the eighteenth century French artist, Anne Vallayer-Coster and featured a number of her exquisitely painted floral...
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Seymour Joseph Guy
At the Opera by Seymour Joseph Guy (1887) I was looking at the website of a person who had commented on one of my blogs and I was fascinated by a painting he had posted. I had to find out more about...
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Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes, Part 1 – Victor Meirelles
MUSEU NACIONAL DE BELAS ARTESRio de Janeiro Ten days ago I had a holiday in search of some sun and hot weather and arrived in Rio. Besides the usual things to do like swim in the sea, visit Corcovado...
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Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. Part 2 – Pedro Américo
In my last blog I talked about my visit to the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro and featured one of the great Brazilian artists, Victor Meirelles. Some would have us believe that he was...
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Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child works. Part 1
Mary Cassatt1844 – 1926 Having just become a grandfather for the third time last week I thought I would look at a painter who depicted mother and child in such a loving way and with breathtaking...
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Mary Cassatt – Mother and Child – Part 2
Mary Cassatt As a follow-on from my previous blog I want to feature some more works by Mary Cassatt which feature the close relationship between mother and child. Mary Cassatt had always been...
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The Veronese Exhibition at the National Gallery, London – Part 1.
Today’s blog came in to being thanks to Lady Luck. Last week I went to London for two days. The first day was spent with my daughter and her new baby leaving the second day free for me to roam around...
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