|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 13, 2020 6:28:02 GMT -5
John MacWhirter (1839-1911) was a Scottish painter who later moved to London, partly inspired by John Everett Millais. His sister Agnes was a still-life painter.
Gates of the Forest (1910)
Joseph Backler (1813-1895) was a London-born artist arrested for forging cheques, he was shipped to Australia where he spent 9 years in prison. Upon release he restarted his artistic career painting Australian landscapes.
Bathurst, New South Wales (1857)
Jan Frans van Bredael (1686-1750) was born into a family of painters; his father, cousins and grandfather were all painters. He was born and spent most of his career in Antwerp, he enjoyed brief sojourns in London and Paris.
River landscape with a fortress
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 14, 2020 6:04:39 GMT -5
Ludvig Skramstad (1855-1912) was a Norwegian painter influenced by the Dusseldorf art school. Around the turn of the century he received such negative criticism in Norway he worked for an art dealer in Munich until the end of his days.
Fjord
Mathieu Dubus (1590-1665) was born in southern Flanders. Little is known about him, he decorated a Stadtholder's palace in The Hague while his best known works involved rocky landscapes.
Mountainous landscape (1635)
Lewis Pinhorn Wood (1848-1918) was a landscape and watercolour artist known to depict Surrey and Sussex.
Evening on the Tillingbourne (1889)
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 15, 2020 6:05:23 GMT -5
Harald Jerichau (1851-1878) was born in Copenhagen to an artistic family; his father was a sculptor, his mother and brother were also painters. The final three years of his life were steeped in tragedy; his first and only child died at 3 months, blaming the climate he moved with his wife from Istanbul to Naples, a year later she died. Two years later Harald died from a combination of typhus and malaria.
Boats anchored on the Tiber (1871)
Pieter Spierinckx (1635-1711) was a Flemish painter and tapestry artist. His patrons included the kings of Spain and France.
Landscape with tavern and aqueduct
William Taverner (1703-1772) was the son of an English dramatist. He later became procurator-general for the Church of England, painting in his spare time.
Classical Landscape (1760)
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 16, 2020 8:44:26 GMT -5
Christian Zacho (1843-1913) was a Danish painter influenced by the Barbizon school.
First snow in Brittany (1881)
Giovanni Battista Lusieri (1755-1821) was an Italian painter who worked for Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and the secretary of Lord Elgin. Lusieri was employed by Elgin to make sketches of Greek antiquities; it was Lusieri who persuaded Elgin to remove the marbles to protect them from Turkish opportunists who were breaking off and selling pieces to tourists.
Eruption on Vesuvius at night (1793)
Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) was an American romanticist painter born in New York. With a wife and 9 children to support his inability to sell his paintings at high prices took a heavy toll on him; after several breakdowns he spent the last 20 years of his life in mental institutions.
Evening (1890)
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 17, 2020 9:42:24 GMT -5
Alfred Thorne (1850-1916) was a Swedish painter and illustrator who also created an altarpiece for Vimmerby Church
Spring in the country (1888)
Jan Nepomucen Glowacki (1802-1847) was a Polish painter who lived most of his life in Krakow. Influenced by the Viennese school, he focused particular attention on the Tatras Mountains.
Wawel Castle, Krakow (1847)
George Augustus Williams (1814-1901) was a member of the Williams family of painters. He painted riverscapes of southern England and Wales before moving to London for the last 50 years of his life.
Windsor Castle from the Thames
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 18, 2020 10:35:18 GMT -5
Alexander Scott (1854-1925) was the son of a British portraitist. He spent time in Hawaii and India, he was married to a woman from Philadelphia where he spent many years too.
Diamond head from Tantalus (1908)
Abraham Govaerts (1589-1626) was a cabinet-painter of forest landscapes from Antwerp. He would often paint the landscapes with another artist painting the figures. Govaerts died during an epidemic in Antwerp, his wife followed a couple days later.
Wooded landscape with peasants
Dankvart Dreyer (1816-1852) was a Danish landscape painter in the early romantic period. Under increasing criticism he withdrew from the artistic scene and died from typhus at just 36.
Coast near Aarhus (1839)
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 19, 2020 7:55:31 GMT -5
Daniel Charles Grose (1832-1900) was born in Whitby to a family of travelling performers. He later moved to Toronto then New York becoming affiliated with the Hudson River school.
Quebec Rapids (1865)
Jan Wildens (1586-1653) was born in Antwerp, his experiences in Italy saw him turn to landscape painting. He later became friends with Peter Paul Rubens
Landscape with dancing shepherds (1631)
Adelsteen Normann (1848-1918) was a Norwegian painter who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin. His paintings of fjords contributed to their popularity as a tourist destination.
View of a fjord
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 20, 2020 5:49:37 GMT -5
Eugene Ciceri (1813-1890) was a French painter, illustrator and set designer from an artistic family; his father was a stage designer, his grandfather and uncle were both painters.
On the banks of the Loing (1866)
Albert Moulton Foweraker (1873-1942) was an English painter who lived in Devon and Cornwall. He also painted Spain, North Africa and southern France on his travels.
Afterglow - Alhambra and Sierra Nevada, Granada (1905)
Joseph Magnus Stack (1812-1868) was a Swedish painter whose grandfather came from Bologna. He decided against becoming a physician to pursue art. During his travels he contracted malaria which stayed with him for the rest of his life.
Italian ruins in moonlight (1850)
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 21, 2020 7:29:38 GMT -5
Francois Diday (1802-1877) was a Swiss painter born to the son of a watchmaker. His studies in Italy were cut short from lack of funds, he spent most of his time in his native Switzerland painting mountains.
Path from Grimsel to Handeck (1855)
Adriaen Honich (1643-1684) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Stadhuisberg, Utrecht (1663)
Jacob More (1740-1793) was an Edinburgh-born painter who settled in Italy.
Clyde Falls (1771)
|
|
|
|
Post by Woland on Jul 22, 2020 5:58:16 GMT -5
Jozef Szermentowski (1833-1876) was a Polish painter who spent his last years in Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune.
Pieniny Mountains
John Robinson Tait (1834-1909) was an American painter who created most of his paintings in Germany. He later settled in Baltimore as an art critic.
Evening at the lake shore (1876)
Hans de Jode (1630-1663) was a Dutch painter of marine and harbour scenes. He spent most of his life in Italy and later Vienna.
Landscape with bathers (1656)
|
|
