Tag: PORTRAIT OF A LADY

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Gustav Klimt Portrait Of A Lady In White (Unfinished), c. 1917-1918 Oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings,…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3c

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William Chadwick, American, 1879-1962 Seated Woman in a Kimono Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches Private Collection The passion for Japanisme that swept through American art in the 1890s is exemplified in Seated Woman in Kimono. Taking an approach inspired by Whistlerian aestheticism, Chadwick offset the broad sweep of his subject’s flowered garment against the compact…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3b

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Reginald Marsh, 1898 – 1954 WALKING WOMAN, 1953 Oil on canvasboard 17 3/4 by 13 5/8 inches, (45.1 by 35.6 cm) Private Collection Reginald Marsh (March 14, 1898 – July 3, 1954) was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island…

09 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3a

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Master John (floruit 1544-1545) Portrait of Queen Mary I (1516-1558) “Bloody Mary” Oil on panel 711 × 508 cm (279.9 × 200 in) National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants led to the…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, 20th C., with Footnotes. #32

Apr 21, 2018

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Harry A Davis (IN, 1914-2006) The Refugeesas, c. 1957 Pastel 18×24 Private collection Hungarian Refugees 1956. The largest wave of refugees in Europe’s post-WWII history were the Hungarians fleeing the country after the crushing of the revolution and freedom fight in 1956. In the weeks after the second, overwhelming, Soviet military intervention on November 4,1956, 200,000…

Thursday, April 19, 2018 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #31

Apr 19, 2018

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Charles Haigh-Wood, (British, 1856-1927) Portrait of Mrs. Charles Haigh-Wood Oil on canvas 77.5 x 52.1cm (30 1/2 x 20 1/2in) Private collection Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (28 May 1888 – 22 January 1947) was an English governess and writer, who became known for her marriage in 1915 to the American poet T. S. Eliot. Her legacy, and…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 F

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Bartolomeo Veneto, (1470–1531) Jewish woman with tools, c. 1512 or 1520 Private collection Jewish woman with tools. One source seems to suggest (plausibly) that the hammer indicates that she is being painted as the biblical Yael. Sisera was commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor, who is mentioned in Judges 4-5 of the Hebrew…

02 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 E

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Bartolomeo Veneto, (1470–1531) Idealized Portrait of a Courtesan as Flora, c. 1520 Tempera and oil on poplar wood 44 × 35 cm (17.3 × 13.8 in) Städel, Frankfurt Flora from c. 1515 is currently attributed to Bartolomeo. The unknown figure is painted with hard-edges and a descriptive quality. Though the sitter is unknown, she is thought (and perhaps…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 D

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John Michael Wright Portrait de Ann Suckling of Norfolk, c. 17th Century Oil on canvas 27 ¾ x 34 inches, 70.5 x 86.5cm Private collection The suggested sitter as Ann Suckling, daughter of Sir John Suckling, and wife of Sir John Davis of Pangbourne cannot be correct. However, Ann Suckling did have a daughter, also called Ann, who may…

02 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 C

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Circle of Sir John Hoppner, (British, 1758–1810) Portrait of Lady Mackintosh Oil on canvas 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.) Private collection Lady Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh (1723–1784) was a Jacobite of the Clan Farquharson and the wife of Angus, Chief of the Clan MacKintosh. The Jacobite were a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 B

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Charles Sprague Pearce, 1851 – 1914 BEATRIX Oil on canvas 21 7/8 by 18 inches, (55.6 by 45.7 cm) Private Collection Charles Sprague Pearce (October 13, 1851 – May 18, 1914) was an American artist. Pearce was born at Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris, and after 1885 he lived…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, from the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #3 A

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John Hoppner R.A., 1758-1810 PORTRAIT OF A LADY AS EVELINA Oil on canvas 68.5 by 53.5 cm., 27 by 21 in Private Collection The traditional title for the portrait is ‘Portrait of a Lady as Evelina’. Evelina or A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World was a novel by Fanny Burney published in 1778. It…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #30

Apr 14, 2018

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Henry Campotosto, (Belgian, 1833-1910) Mother and child, c. 1908 Oil on panel 80 x 114cm (31 1/2 x 44 7/8in). Private collection Henry Campotosto (Belgian, 1833-1910) was a British, painter and draughtsman. He was also known for his genre paintings. Early in his career he lived in Brussels. By 1882 he moved to London. He remained…

01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 16

Apr 2, 2018

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Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger, (FRENCH 1824 – 1888) Aristocratic ladies promenading at the city walls, c. 1869 Oil on canvas 73 x 50cm Private collection Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – October 1888) was a French figure painter known for his classical and Orientalist subjects. He was born at Paris in 1824, and orphaned at age…

05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hélène Vary and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, with Footnotes. # 19

Mar 31, 2018

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During the seven years that Toulouse-Lautrec lived on rue Fontaine, in the company of Dr. Bourges, he felt a special admiration for his neighbor Hélène Vary. Henri photographed her several times to take these snapshots as a model of her works. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864 – 1901 Hélène Vary, c. 1888 Oil on wood 75 x…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #29

Mar 10, 2018

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George Da Maduro Peixotto, American, 1858-1937 Portrait of Marie-Aimee Roger-Miclos, Pianist, 1893 Oil on canvas 57 1/8 x 74 inches (145 x 188 cm) Private collection Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos ( Toulouse , 1860 – 1950 ) was a great French pianist. She studied piano at the Conservatory of her hometown and in Paris , earning a first prize in…

01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #29

Mar 9, 2018

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Jean-Pierre Cassigneul, (b. 1935) Cavalier au bois, c. 1983 Original lithograph on paper 21in. by 29in. Private Collection Jean-Pierre Cassigneul is a French artist who continues the decorative traditions of the early 20th century artists Bonnard and Vuillard. He paints fairly flatly rendered colorful women with stylized classical, dramatic features with large, stylized eyes, who often wear…

04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #20

Feb 17, 2018

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John Wesley Jarvis, (American, 1780-1838) Maria Holmes, American 1780-1834) Oil on canvas 28 1/4″ x 24 1/4″ Private collection The subject is depicted in a black dress with lace shawl, her body angled slightly to her right, with part of a red painted chair visible behind her. Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 – October…

04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #19

Jan 21, 2018

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