Monday, April 29, 2013

Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1909)

Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1909), French painter who studied under Bouguereau.
Gustave Jean Jacquet, A Portrait of a Noble Lady
Gustave Jean Jacquet, A Portrait of a Noble Lady
Gustave Jean Jacquet, La Coquette
Gustave Jean Jacquet, La Coquette
Gustave Jean Jacquet, Welcome
Gustave Jean Jacquet, Welcome
Gustave Jean Jacquet, Wistful Thoughts, 1878
Gustave Jean Jacquet, Wistful Thoughts, 1878

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Francisco Soria Aedo (1898-1965)

Francisco Soria Aedo (1898-1965), Spanish painter. If you’ve ever done an art history course or perused an art history book you might well have gained the impression that the story of 20th century art was the story of the triumphant march of modernism, that once Cubism appeared schools of art like Pre-Raphaelitism and the academic style were swept into the dustbin of history. In fact many 20th century painters refused top have any truck with modernism and clung stubbornly to the ideal that art is supposed to inspire us rather than to demoralise us, that art should be about beauty and truth rather than ugliness and misery. Painters such as Francisco Soria Aedo. Modernist critics did their best to expunge the names of such artists from the historical record but today, thanks to the internet, they are being slowly but surely rediscovered. Francisco Soria Aedo3 Francisco Soria Aedo7 Francisco Soria Aedo2 Francisco Soria Aedo5 Francisco Soria Aedo4 Francisco Soria Aedo1 Francisco Soria Aedo6 Francisco Soria Aedo8

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Mary Young Hunter

Mary Young Hunter was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. This is very obvious in The Bow in the Cloud, inspired by Millais. I confess I know nothing about this very obscure early 20th century artist.
Mary Young Hunter, Dreaming by a Pond, 1903
Mary Young Hunter, Dreaming by a Pond, 1903
Mary Young Hunter, The Bow in the Cloud, 1906
Mary Young Hunter, The Bow in the Cloud, 1906

Monday, April 22, 2013

Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805-1867)

Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805-1867), German painter. A representative of the Düsseldorf school of painting, an offshoot of the Romantic movement.
Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Mathilde Wesendonck, 1850
Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Torquato Tasso et les deux Léonore, 1839

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920)

Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920), German painter.
Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Allegory of Autumn, 1900
Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Allegory of Autumn, 1900
Friedrich August von Kaulbach
Friedrich August von Kaulbach, In Arcadia
Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Tocher des Dichters Ludwig Ganghofer, 1895
Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Tocher des Dichters Ludwig Ganghofer, 1895
Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Germania, 1914
Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Germania, 1914

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Henry Courtney Selous (1803-1890)

Henry Courtney Selous (1803-1890), English painter.
Henry Courtney Selous, The Love Letter
Henry Courtney Selous, The Love Letter
Henry Courtney Selous, Birth of Venus, 1852
Henry Courtney Selous, Birth of Venus, 1852
Henry Courtney Selous, Venetian Scene
Henry Courtney Selous, Venetian Scene

Monday, April 15, 2013

Michel Simonidy, (1870-1933)

Michel Simonidy, (1870-1933), Romanian painter.
Michel Simonidy, A Fair Venetian
Michel Simonidy, A Fair Venetian
Michel Simonidy, La source
Michel Simonidy,  La source

Friday, April 12, 2013

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942), French painter.
Jacques-Émile Blanche, Portrait of Donna Olga Caracciolo dei Duchi di Castelluccio, 1889
Jacques-Émile Blanche, Portrait of Donna Olga Caracciolo dei Duchi di Castelluccio, 1889
Jacques-Émile Blanche, Desiree Manfred face a son Miroir, 1914
Jacques-Émile Blanche, Desiree Manfred face a son Miroir, 1914

Monday, April 8, 2013

John White Alexander (1856-1915)

John White Alexander (1856-1915), American painter.
John White Alexander, Memories, 1903
John White Alexander, Memories, 1903
John White Alexander, Woman in a Red Dress
John White Alexander, Woman in a Red Dress
John White Alexander, June, 1911
John White Alexander, June, 1911
John White Alexander, A Ray of Sunlight (The Cellist), 1898
John White Alexander, A Ray of Sunlight (The Cellist), 1898

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830-1896)

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830-1896), British painter.
1Frederic Leighton, Bather
Frederic Leighton, Bather
1Frederic Leighton, The Garden of the Hesperides, 1892
Frederic Leighton, The Garden of the Hesperides, 1892
1Frederic Leighton, Venus Disrobing for the Bath
Frederic Leighton, Venus Disrobing for the Bath
1Frederic Leighton, The feigned death of Juliet, 1856-58
Frederic Leighton, The feigned death of Juliet, 1856-58
1Frederic Leighton, Perseus and Andromeda, 1891
Frederic Leighton, Perseus and Andromeda, 1891

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Ernest Normand (1859–1923)

Ernest Normand (1859–1923), English history and orientalist painter influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.

Ernest Normand, Evil Sought
Ernest Normand, Pygmalion et Galatée, 1881
Ernest Normand, Bondage, 1890
Ernest Normand, Esther Denouncing Haman, 1888
Ernest Normand, Queen Vashti deposed, 1890
Ernest Normand, The White Slave, 1894
Ernest Normand, The Bitter Draught of Slavery, 1885