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William Sidney Mount. Part 2 – The Portraitist, and some of his early...
Self portrait by William S Mount (1832) In my last blog I looked at the early life of William Sidney Mount, hailed as the first American genre artist. I looked at his love for music and how he...
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William Sidney Mount. Part 3, More of his genre paintings
Caught Napping- (Boys Caught Napping in a Field) by William S Mount (1848) This is Part 3 of my blog featuring the nineteenth century American genre painter and portraitist, William Sidney Mount. In...
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Frederick William Elwell. Part 1. The early days.
Self Portrait by Fred Elwell (1933) When I look back on the four and half years of doing this blog I see my early entries were quite short but appeared nearly three or four times a week. Nowadays due...
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Fred Elwell. Part 2. Portraiture
In my second look at the life and works of Fred Elwell I want to concentrate on his masterful portraiture. In the last blog I left Fred Elwell studying in Paris with his friend Claude Rivas. The year...
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Fred Elwell. Part 3 – Landscapes and Mrs Elwell
Fred Elwell by Dame Laura Knight As far as art was concerned, Fred Elwell was a master of many art genres. In my last blog I looked at his superb portraiture and in this blog I want to feature some of...
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Frederick Elwell. Part 4 – More of his genre works
Frederick William Elwell(1870 – 1958) In my final look at the life of the twentieth century Yorkshire artist Frederick William Elwell I want to conclude his life story and look at some of his genre...
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Sir George Clausen. Part 1. Rustic Naturalism and the influence of Jules...
Sir George Clausen(Self Portrait) There is something very intriguing about “–isms” when talking about genres in art. We are all aware of them common ones such as realism, impressionism, cubism, etc....
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Sir George Clausen. Part 2 – More rural works and the War artist
Sir George Clausen1852 – 1944 In this concluding part looking at the life and works of George Clausen, later Sir George Clausen, I will focus on his love of depicting workers labouring in the fields in...
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Peder Balke. Part 1 – His early life and struggles to become a painter
Peder Balke(1804-1887) I suppose if you are a landscape or seascape artist it is ideal to be living amongst glorious scenery or rugged coastlines which inspire you to paint and is much better than...
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Peder Balke. Part 2 – The great Norwegian journey and disillusionment
Winter Landscape. Near Vordingborg, by Johan Christian Dahl (1827) Balke returned to Christiania in 1830 and stayed with Professor Rathke and in that May travelled to Copenhagen and was fortunate to be...
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Henry Herbert La Thangue – the pictorial documenter of rural life
Henry Herbert La Thangue(photo c.1893) A few blogs ago I looked at the life and works of George Clausen and termed his art as rustic realism and today I want to delve into the life and the art work of...
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Mr and Mrs Wachtel and their Californian dreams
Elmer Wachtel I often come into contact with American tourists who stay at my Bed & Breakfast and I always ask them where is the best place in America as far as climate is concerned and I nearly...
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Dosso Dossi. Part 1 – The Constabili Polyptych
In my last blog I looked at the lives of two American landscape artists, Marion and Elmer Wachtel and for many people outside of America these painters may have been completely unknown. Today in my...
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Dosso Dossi. Part 2 – The tale of the young man who was a famous lady and the...
Dosso Dossiself portrait The first painting of Dosso Dossi I want to showcase is one which is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. The gallery acquired the painting from a gallery in...
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Thomas Benjamin Kennington
In my next two blogs I am going to look at the lives and works of two English painters, the father, Thomas Benjamin Kennington and his son, Eric. Today I am going to concentrate and examine some of...
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Eric Henri Kennington. Part 1 – World War I and T.E.Lawrence
Photo of Eric Kennington by Howard Coster (1936) In my last blog I looked at the life and some of the paintings of Thomas Benjamin Kennington, the Victorian painter. Today, in the first of two...
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Eric Henri Kennington, Part 2 – the Second World War Artist
Eric Kennington (1926) At the end of Part 1 of this blog about Eric Henri Kennington we had reached a point in his life when he had travelled to Arabia to prepare sketches which would later be used in...
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Albert Joseph Moore. Part 1 – his early life and his talented family
Albert Joseph Moore c. 1870 The nineteenth century Swiss painter, Paul Klee, once said of a woman’s beauty: “…Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at...
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Peder Balke. Part 2 – The great Norwegian journey and disillusionment
Winter Landscape. Near Vordingborg, by Johan Christian Dahl (1827) Balke returned to Christiania in 1830 and stayed with Professor Rathke and in that May travelled to Copenhagen and was fortunate to be...
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Henry Herbert La Thangue – the pictorial documenter of rural life
Henry Herbert La Thangue(photo c.1893) A few blogs ago I looked at the life and works of George Clausen and termed his art as rustic realism and today I want to delve into the life and the art work of...
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