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Théodore Géricault – horses, military and the erotic
Théodore Géricault by Alexandre Colin (1816) In the last few blogs I have talked about paintings which, at the time, shocked the establishment. In this blog I will be looking at a painting by one of...
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Théodore Géricault and Monomania
Self Portrait by Théodore Géricault In my last blog I looked at some works by Théodore Géricault. I examined his paintings which featured horses and the military and his masterpiece The Raft of the...
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Ary Scheffer
Self portrait by Ary Scheffer (1795) I have often mentioned in previous blogs that the subject for a blog frequently comes from something I have stumbled upon whilst researching another blog. Today’s...
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Alexandre Cabanel. Part 1 – The early days and Rome
Self portrait by Alexandre Cabanel (1852) My featured artist today, Alexandre Cabanel, was one of the most well respected Academic artists of the nineteenth century. In my next couple of blogs I will...
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Alexandre Cabanel. Part 2 – the Prix de Rome and his return to Paris
I had reached the part in Alexandre Cabanel’s life story with him staying in the Villa Medici in Rome studying art, gifted to him as a reward for coming the “Second –First prize” winner in the Prix de...
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Alexandre Cabanel. Part 3 – The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel by Achille Jacquet (c.1883) This is the third and penultimate instalment of my look at the life and works of Alexandre Cabanel. Over the years I have looked at the life of many...
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Alexandre Cabanel Part 4 – Portraiture
Alexandre Cabanel (1823-89) In my last look at the life and works of Alexandre Cabanel I want to concentrate on his genius as a portraitist. In my last blog I had reached 1863, the year in which his...
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The portraiture of Giovanni Battista Moroni
Last week, I went to the Royal Academy which was staging three very different exhibitions. Each one had its supporters and it was interesting to walk through each and compare the works on display....
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Giovanni Battista Moroni – his religious works
In today’s blog I complete my look at the 16th century Italian painter, Giovanni Battista Moroni, and look at some of his religious works. Moroni had studied under Alessandro Bonvicino (Il Moretto) and...
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Isaac Levitan. Part 1, His early life and paintings
Self portrait by Isaac Levitan (1880) From the portraiture and the religious works of the 16th century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni I am moving in a completely different direction. I am...
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Isaac Levitan. Part 2 – The later years
Portrait of Anton Chekhov by Isaac Levitan (1886) Anton Chekhov, the writer and physician, was born in January 1860. He was the third of six children and was brought up in the coastal town of Taganrog...
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Alexsei Savrasov – the lyrical landscape artist
Portrait of Alexei Savrasov by Vasily Perov (1878) My last two blogs featured the life and works of the great nineteenth century landscape painter, Isaac Levitan. Whilst I was researching his early...
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Jozef Israels. Part 1 – The Plight of the Fisherman
Portrait of Jozef Israels by Jan Veth (1887) My previous three blogs looked at Russian landscape painters and although they were leading exponents of this 19th century genre they may have been unknown...
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Jozef Israels Part 2 – The Peasants and his later life
Self portrait by Jozef Israels (1881) I ended my last blog, which looked at the life of Jozef Israels, around 1856 when he was living in the small fishing town of Zandvoort and spent much of his time...
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag – his seascapes and Panorama Mesdag
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1913) The person I am featuring today was an artist of great talent, an avid art collector and an owner of a museum, which housed many of the works he had collected during his...
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Marie Bashkirtseff. Part 1 The portraitist and feminist
Photograph of twenty year old Marie Bashkirtseff (1878) I had been researching the life of Jules Bastien-Lepage for a future blog when I came across the fascinating story of a Ukranian lady, a friend...
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Marie Bashkirtseff. Part 2 her later life and diaries
Marie Bashkirtseff (1858 – 1884) In my previous blog I concentrated on the portraiture of Marie Bashkirtseff but she will probably be remembered best for other genres One painting by Marie Bashkirtseff...
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Maria Luise Katharina Breslau
Self portrait by Louise Breslau (1891) In my recent blogs looking at the life of Marie Bashkirtseff, I talked about the time she spent studying art at the Académie Julian in Paris and her rivalry with...
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Natalia Goncharova and Rayonism
Natalia Goncharova1881 – 1962 In my blog today I want to look at the life of the avant-garde Russian painter, stage designer and printmaker, Natal’ya (Sergeevna) Goncharova. Natalia was born in...
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William Sidney Mount. Part 1. The Music Man
William Sidney Mount Genre art is defined as the pictorial representation of scenes or events from everyday life. They often depict settings such as a marketplace or tavern or simply everyday...
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