Thursday, July 2, 2015

Earth, Water, Air, & Fire - The Elements - Jacopo Amigoni (Italian artist, c 1682-1752)


 Jacopo Amigoni (Italian artist, c 1682-1752) The Elements - Air



  Jacopo Amigoni (Italian artist, c 1682-1752) The Elements - Earth



  Jacopo Amigoni (Italian artist, c 1682-1752) The Elements - Fire



 Jacopo Amigoni (Italian artist, c 1682-1752) The Elements - Water


Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Earth, Water, Air, & Fire - The Elements - Jean Mariette (French printmaker, 1660-1742)



 Jean Mariette (French printmaker, 1660-1742) The Elements - Air



 Jean Mariette (French printmaker, 1660-1742) The Elements - Fire



 Jean Mariette (French printmaker, 1660-1742) The Elements - Earth



Jean Mariette (French printmaker, 1660-1742) The Elements - Water


Sunday, June 28, 2015

Earth, Water, Air, & Fire - The Elements - Nicolas Bonnart I (French printer, c 1637-1718)



 Nicolas Bonnart I (French printer, c 1637-1718) The Elements - Air



 Nicolas Bonnart I (French printer, c 1637-1718) The Elements - Earth



 Nicolas Bonnart I (French printer, c 1637-1718) The Elements - Fire



Nicolas Bonnart I (French printer, c 1637-1718) The Elements - Water


Friday, June 26, 2015

Earth, Water, Air, & Fire - The Elements - William Marshall (British printmaker, 1617-1649)

 William Marshall (British printmaker, 1617-1649) The Elements - Earth



 William Marshall (British printmaker, 1617-1649) The Elements - Fire



William Marshall (British printmaker, 1617-1649) The Elements - Water


 William Marshall (British printmaker, 1617-1649) The Elements - Air


Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Earth, Water, Air, & Fire - The Elements - Crispin de Passe (1565-1637)



 Crispin de Passe (1565-1637), The Four Elements after drawings by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603),  c. 1600.  Earth



 Crispin de Passe (1565-1637), The Four Elements, after drawings by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603),  c. 1600.  Air



 Crispin de Passe (1565-1637), The Four Elements, after drawings by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603),  c. 1600. Fire



Crispin de Passe (1565-1637), The Four Elements, after drawings by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603),  c. 1600. Water


Saturday, June 20, 2015

20C Hungarian music, women, legs, dogs, & goats by Robert Bereny 1887-1953


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Woman Playing Cello 1928


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Woman with Cello 1937

Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Self Portrait 1906

In 1904, Bereny was a student of Tivadar Zemplényi, before he went to study in Paris, where he was particularly influenced by Cézanne's art. Politcally he took part in the art life of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, and he was the leader of the department for painting in the Art Directorate. After 1919, he emmigrated to Berlin, which he left to return home in 1926. He worked in Zebegény from 1934. He was awarded the Szinnyei prize in 1936.  Obviously, I am particularly fond of his self-portraits & his bold use of color.

Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Red Dress 1908


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Woman in a Green Room 1927


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Woman in Arm Chair 1923


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Girl Reading 1946-48


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Self Portrait 1947


Thursday, June 18, 2015

20C English Music by Stanley Spencer 1891-1959



Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Music Lesson at Bedales 1921  Bedales School is an independent school situated in the village of Steep, in Hampshire. The school was founded in 1893, by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventional Victorian schools. In the first half of 20th century the progressive movement around Bedales attracted a community of artists, craftsmen & writers to live in Steep. In the early 1920s Stanley Spencer made a number of drawings & paintings of activities at the school, while staying with Muirhead Bone.

Spencer's father was a musician & taught him to play the piano,  Two sisters who lived at the end of his lane in Cookham, said that he would drop in & say "Can I have a tinkle?" He would sit down at their piano & play Bach & Chopin.



Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) At the Piano 1957


Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Flowers for you


Josef Launer (Mid 19C Austrian artist) Bouquet of Flowers with a Butterfly


Sunday, June 14, 2015

Flowers for you from Jean Édouard Vuillard 1868-1940


 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Fleurs (1904)



 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Flowers 1906



 Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Bouquet of Pansies, Myosotis and Daisies in front of a Carafe, on a Table 1900



Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Anemones in a Jug 1902


Wednesday, June 10, 2015

1700s Music Parties Indoors



 1720 Marcellus Laroon II (British artist, A 1679-1772) Musical Assembly



 1734 John Theodore Heins Senior (German artist, 1697–1756) A Music Party at Melton Constable



 Attributed to Hendrick Goovaerts (1669–1720) A Party with Music & Actors



 Gawen Hamilton (British artist, 1697–1737) A Music Party The Mathias Family 1730s



 Jean-Antoine Watteau (French artist, 1684–1721) A Music Party (L'amour au théâtre italien)



 Music Party after William Hogarth 1720-1730



 The Leslie Conversation Piece (A Musical Rivalry) 1760-65 by an unknown Irish artist



Vincenzo Vita (Italian artist, d 1782) A Musical Party 1770-80


Monday, June 8, 2015

Tea for Everyone

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Artist Unknown Inglese Couple Having Tea c 1830-40



Bernard de Hoog (Dutch painter, 1867-1943) Tea Time



Thomas Webster (Inglese genre painter, 1800-1886), The Tea Party 1862



Tom McEwan (British genre artist, 1846-1914) Tea Time



Andrei Ryabushkin (Russian painter, 1861-1904) Drinking Tea 1903



Harold John Wilde Gilman (Inglese painter, 1876-1919) Mrs Mounter at the Breakfast Table



Harold Harvey (Inglese Painter, 1874-1941]) The Tea Table 1920



Poul Friis Nybo (Danish artist, from 1869 to 1929) Reading Woman 1929



William Patrick Roberts (British painter, 1895-1980) Tea Shop 1938