Monday, July 28, 2014

Georges Rouget (1781-1869)

Georges Rouget (1781-1869), French neoclassical painter.
Georges Rouget, L’Amour suppliant Vénus de pardonner à Psyché, 1827

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Henry Thomas Schafer (1873-1915)

Henry Thomas Schafer (1873-1915), British painter and sculptor.
Henry Thomas Schafer, Spring Blossoms
Henry Thomas Schafer, Niobe
Henry Thomas Schafer, The Banquet

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Benes Knüpfer (1848-1910)

Benes Knüpfer (1848-1910), Czechoslovakian painter.
Benes Knüpfer, Duel of the Tritons
Benes Knüpfer, Game of the Waves
Benes Knüpfer, Triton und die Najaden

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Louis-Theophile Hingre (1832-1911)

Louis-Theophile Hingre (1832-1911), French artist, sculptor and illustrator in the art nouveau style.
Louis-Theophile Hingre, poster
Louis-Theophile Hingre, poster
Louis-Theophile Hingre, Parfumerie Violet

Friday, July 11, 2014

Arthur Drummond (1871-1951)

Arthur Drummond (1871-1951), British classicist painter who studied under Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Arthur Drummond, Victorian Fantasy
Arthur Drummond, Blossoms
Arthur Drummond, The Battle of Flowers

Monday, July 7, 2014

Alexandre-Auguste Hirsch (1833-1912)

Alexandre-Auguste Hirsch (1833-1912), French academic painter.
Alexandre-Auguste Hirsch, title unknown

Friday, July 4, 2014

Sir John Lavery (1856-1941)

Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), Irish painter.

Sir John Lavery, Hazel Lavery

Sir John Lavery,  Anna Pavlova as a Bacchante, 1910
Sir John Lavery, The Green Sofa
Sir John Lavery, The Silver Queen
Sir John Lavery, The Red Fan, c.1885 

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Nicolas Roerich (1874-1947)

Nicolas Roerich (1874-1947), also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, Russian artist, writer, archaeologist and philosopher. Roerich’s landscape paintings of mountains were one of the inspirations for H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.
Nicolas Roerich, Tibet, 1933
Nicolas Roerich, Star of the Morning
Nicolas Roerich, And We are Opening the Gates, 1922
Nicolas Roerich, Tibet, 1936
Nicolas Roerich, Guests from Overseas, 1901
Nicolas Roerich, St. Olga of Kiev, 1915