Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Swiss artist Félix Edouard Vallotton 1865-1925 paints rather non-traditional andscapes
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1913 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Rising Tide
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1895 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Moonlight
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1915 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) the sheaves
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1921 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) View of Cagne from Horseback
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1922 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Part of the Town of Pont-Audemer
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1917 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Verdun
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1920 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Alyscamps morning sun
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1923 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) A Vallon Landscape
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1922 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Family of Trees
Félix Edouard Vallotton 1925 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Landscape Rocamadour
Monday, January 5, 2015
William Merritt Chase 1849-1916 - His daughter Alice
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase in the Mirror
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) Mrs William Merritt Chase and Cosy (Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase) 1895
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1898
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1902
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1902
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase, Shinnecock Hills 1902
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase with Russian Wolfhound 1903
Thursday, January 1, 2015
And a few cats by Suzanne Valadon 1865-1938
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Two Cats
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Study of a cat in 1918
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Bouquet and a Cat 1919
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) and Louison Raminou, 1920
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) sitting on a cloth Raminou 1920
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Miss Lily Walton with Raminou 1922
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) and Raminou pitcher with skin tones in 1932
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Fashion! - Pretty in pink 18C Turquerie wraps with fur trim
1740-45 George Knapton (English artist, 1698–1778) Lady Throckmorton
1760s Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Lady Henrietta Godolphin, Duchess of Newcastle
1770 after Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Portrait of a Lady
1770s Francis Cotes (English Painter, 1726-1770) Portrait Of A Lady, Said To Be Henrietta Conyers
1771 Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Mrs Thomas Watkinson Payler
1775 Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Unknown lady
1775 Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Lady in Turkish dress
Joshua Reynolds (English artist, 1723–1792) Charlotte Grenville and her children
1770s Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Philippine Fellenberg
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Fashion! - 18C Hints of Turquerie from Austrian Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder 1751-1830
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Portrait of Jekaterina Samojlowa 1792-96
Giovanni Battista Lampi the Elder was born in Austria to fresco painter Matteo (Mattia) Lampi. The young artist studied art under his father in Verona, & later in Salzburg. In 1773, he left his father's teaching to travel to Trento to study portraiture. He traveled next to Innsbruck; and then to Vienna, where the Emperor Joseph II appointed him a professor at the Vienna Academy in 1786. Later that same year, he was invited to Warsaw by the court of King Stanisław August Poniatowski. He decided to stay & worked in Warsaw until the final partition of Poland. In 1791, he moved to St. Petersburg, enticed by a hereditary knighthood offered by the Czar. In Russia he devoted himself to portrait painting.
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Empress of Russia Catherine the Great (Sophie Fredericke Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst 1729-96) dressed for a masquerade
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Portrait of Countess Natalia Alexandrovna Suvarova (1775-1844) 1795
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Aloysia Webber c. 1780
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Teréz Brunszvik de Korompa (Therese Countess von Brunsvik or Brunswick, 1775-1861)
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) Kordula Potocka 1790
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (Austrian painter, 1751-1830) 1793 Countess Catherine Stroganova
Friday, July 25, 2014
Fashion! - A little Polish Turquerie from Kazimir Wojniakowski 1772 -1812
Kazimir Wojniakowski (Polish artist, 1772 -1812) Maria Theresa Poniatowska
Kazimierz Wojniakowski was a Polish painter & a pupil of Marcello Bacciarelli. His work as a portraitist was influenced by that of the Polish painter Józef Grassi. Wojniakowski also produced religious works & scenes of contemporary historic events.
Kazimir Wojniakowski (Polish artist, 1772 -1812) Izabela Czartoryska
1790s Kazimir Wojniakowski (Polish artist, 1772 -1812) Portrait of a Lady
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Fashion! - Hugh Barron 1747-1791 paints a little blue & white Turquerie
Hugh Barron (British artist, 1747-1791) Portrait of a lady, said to be Susanna, Mrs Bacon Bedingfield of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk
Hugh Barron was the son of an apothecary in Soho, London. The young artist became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. After leaving Reynolds' studio, he set off for Italy, by way of Lisbon, where he stopped for some time & painted portraits. In 1771-2, he was in Rome. Returning to London, he settled in Leicester Square, & exhibited some portraits at the Royal Academy in 1782-3 & 1786.
Hugh Barron (British artist, 1747-1791) Elizabeth Mrs. John Plampin Dau of Henry Hervey Ashton c 1766
Hugh Barron (British artist, 1747-1791) Portrait of a lady in blue, c 1778
Monday, July 21, 2014
Fashion! - Jean-Baptiste Le Prince 1734-1781 paints Turquerie
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) Young woman in Turkish costume
Born to a family of ornamental sculptors & gilders, Le Prince began studying art with Francois Boucher (1703–70) around 1750. In 1754, the young artist traveled to Italy. By 1757, Le Prince was painting for Catherine the Great at the Imperial Palace in Saint Petersburg. He traveled extensively in Russia, Lithuania, Finland, Holland, & perhaps Siberia, returning to Paris 5 years later eager to make a name for himself. The sketches Le Prince made on his travels of exotic costumes & customs served him well, when he returned to France in 1763. He became a copper engraver, & a genre, landscape & portrait painter. He is also credited with being the first artist to introduce aquatint into his etched & engraved plates. Upon becoming a member of the Académie Royale in 1765, Le Prince exhibited 15 paintings at that year's Salon, all Russian subjects. The drawings he made in Russia provided the basis for a considerable body of work that added to the general taste of 18th century Europeans for exotica. After 1770, Le Prince's health declined, & he left Paris for the French countryside. There he painted the pastoral subjects; which he had learned from Boucher as a young man & from the 17th-century Dutch & Flemish genre & landscape painters, which he so admired.
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) Lady in Turkish Dress
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (French Painter, 1734-1781) The Fortune Teller
Friday, July 11, 2014
Fashion! - Swiss artist Jakob Emanuel Handmann 1718-1781 paints Turquerie
Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Unknown lady 1775
Jakob Emanuel Handmann was the 9th child of Johann Jakob Handmann, a baker in Waldenburg, & his wife Anna Maria Rispach. Between 1735 & 1739, he apprenticed in Schaffhausen with the painter & stucco plasterer Johann Ulrich Schnetzler. The young artist then traveled to Paris, Rome & Naples. In Paris, he worked at the studio of Jean Restout II. In 1742, Handmann worked in France with Hörling Handmann painting the heads of the sitters. Later he worked in the studios of Marco Benefial & Pierre Subleyras in Rome. There he produced commercial copies of masterpieces from the Classical Antiquity & Renaissance periods. By June 1746, he was back in Switzerland; and in 1747, he settled down in Basel, where he opened his own studio.
Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Philippine Fellenberg
Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Lady in Turkish dress 1775
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