Tag: Raphael von Ambros
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33 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists Goodall, Swoboda, Fromentin, Robertson, Haddon, Courdouan, Ungewitter, Schreyer, Maltese, Colman, Cirou, Keyser, Laporte, Dauzats, Hemsbach, Mancini, Fabbi, Joanovitch, Mann, Flint, Ambros, Makovski, Gustavino, and Eisenhut, with footnotes, #7
Frederick Goodall RA (London 17 September 1822–29 July 1904) was an English artist, born in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall (1795–1870). He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy. Frederick’s first commission, for Isambard Brunel, was six watercolour paintings of the Rotherhithe Tunnel. Four of these were exhibited at…
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Raphael von Ambros, TOBACCO SELLER, CAIRO 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 68
Von Ambros depicts a busy tobacco stall outside a coffee shop in the streets of Cairo. On the left, two young men roll cigarettes which have been neatly hung by the merchant on his stall. On the right, a customer samples a cigarette, pondering a purchase. Above the stall on a shelf stand five glass…
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Raphael von Ambros, THE BAKER’S SHOP, CAIRO 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 36
Raphael von Ambros, 1845-1895, AUSTRIAN THE BAKER’S SHOP, CAIRO, c. 1889 Oil on panel 38.5 by 47cm., 15¼ by 18½in. Private collection Von Ambros established his reputation as a masterful observer of scenes of everyday life in Cairo, painted with the greatest attention to verisimilitude and detail. Here, a woman wearing a black niqāb and…
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