Tag: Painting
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Giuseppe Dangelico Pino; Black Shawl 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #51
Pino Daeni- 1939 – 2010, Italian artist, Pino Daeni’s art and canvases elicit feelings of warmth, nostalgia, love and family. His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up. Pino is noted for his exceptional ability to capture the movements and expressions of his subjects – a talent which…
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Francesco Hayez, Matilde Juva Branca 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #50
The figure of the woman, portrayed on a neutral background illuminated by the usual pattern of lights typical of Hayez, is wrapped in black silk dresses from which emerge the white crinoline that frame her face and hands; an arm is placed on the chair on which a light ermine coat is spread, the other…
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Robert Peake, Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Pope 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #49
The black thread depicted here, which normally links the heart and the hands, looks to be broken and may possibly be an allusion to a death and would fit with the traditional identification of the sitter being Elizabeth Watson, who was an heiress at this date. The depiction of her long hair hanging loosely down,…
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Franz von Stuck, DOMINO 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #48
As masquerades flourished in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, Domino was probably the most common mask of all. Typical of the Venetian Carnival, it consisted of a black mask covering only the eyes and was sometimes worn with a cloak over the dress. Shown here held by the model! More on this painting Franz Stuck (February…
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Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, Gypsy approach 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #47
By the nineteenth century, Spain had embraced Gypsy myth and lore. The Romantics were in awe of the gypsies for their otherworldliness and seeming ability to commune with nature, while the following generation of artists and writers, driven by patriotism in the wake of Spain’s colonial losses, venerated the gypsy as the quintessential icon of…
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Richard Rothwell, Portrait of Mary Shelley 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #46
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her…
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John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #45
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children’s book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #42
Stylistically, Vigée Le Brun avoided both the lightness of Late Rococo and the artifice of Neo-Classicism, countering both with a modulated naturalism. She became an artist against great odds, as did any woman in late-18th-century Paris, and aided by the patronage of Marie Antoinette, went on to thrive in a nine-lives, astutely managed sort of…
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Sunday, February 25, 2018 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #21
Abel Dominique Boye, 1864-1934, FRENCH LA ROUSSE/ The redhead Oil on canvas 39 3/8 by 29 in., 100 by 73.5 cm Private collection Abel-Dominique Boyé (6 May 1864–1934) was a French painter. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor. His principal works include: Nymph of Diana (bronze medal, 1888); Pit Sawyer (Agen, 1889); Twilight (1891); Sunday in Seville (1893); and…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., Diane de Poitiers, with Footnotes. #40
Salvador Dalí ‘Diane de Poitiers’, 114/250 Hand-colored drypoint etching 40 x 50 cm Private collection Diane de Poitiers (3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France. She became notorious as King Henry’s chief mistress and in this…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #41
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a prominent French painter. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo, while she often adopts a neoclassical style. Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Neoclassicist, however, in that…
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon, The Flower Girl 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #44
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, RA, RBA, RHA (British, 1862-1923) The Flower Girl, c. 1900 Oil paint on canvas 838 x 660 mm Tate The Flower Girl; painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down…
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon, Contemplation 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #43
Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA (1862–1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada. When he was sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of…
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Theodor Grust, Profile of a Woman, 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #38
Theodor Grust (1859-1919) was a German genre and porcelain painter from the Saxon town Meissen. Grust studied at the Academy in Dresden as a pupil of Theodor Grosse. Later he went to Munich. The artist travelled to Belgium and to the Netherlands before he settled down in his hometown Meissen. Grust worked there in the famous…
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Theodor Grust, Red Cross Nurse 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #39
Theodor Grust (1859-1919) was a German genre and porcelain painter from the Saxon town Meissen. Grust studied at the Academy in Dresden as a pupil of Theodor Grosse. Later he went to Munich. The artist travelled to Belgium and to the Netherlands before he settled down in his hometown Meissen. Grust worked there in the famous…
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Peter Doig; 100 Years Ago (Carrera), 2001 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #37
Peter Doig’s paintings have a tendency to disorientate us, even when they depict recognisable imagery such as figures and buildings. We are often plunged into an unreliable world of reflections, sometimes literally when we are presented with the icy lakes and watery depths .More on this painting Peter Doig (born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish…
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Pál Fried, Woman with Guitar and Flamenco Dancer 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #36
Pál Fried (16 June 1893 in Hungary – 6 March 1976 in New York City) was a Hungarian artist. His oil paintings were usually of dancers, nudes, and portraits, and his subjects were almost always women, although he also painted Paris, seascapes, and cowboys and landscapes of the American West. He signed his paintings, as is…
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Monique Laville, Carnaval Venitien 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #52
Monique Laville, self-taught professional painter, born in Marseille on February 2, 1950 under the name of Saccomanni, “I exhibit in France as well as abroad solo or in group since 1984 with different artistic recognitions and awards. My paintings are strongly influenced by the Impressionist movement with a very personal touch, my painting expresses the…
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Giovanni Boldini, Lina Cavalieri 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #33
Natalina “Lina” Cavalieri (1874-1944) was an Italian opera soprano singer, actress, and monologist. She was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (acquired by Maurice Rothschild) and by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947). The latter is now the property of the Metropolitan Opera, the gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of his wife, the…
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Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Lina Cavalieri 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #35
Natalina “Lina” Cavalieri (1874-1944) was an Italian opera soprano singer, actress, and monologist. She was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (acquired by Maurice Rothschild) and by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947). The latter is now the property of the Metropolitan Opera, the gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of his wife, the…
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