Looking back over 2015

Just reviewing the past year of blogging here. And the five years since I started the blog. Looking back over the stats I notice that by far my most popular all-time post was on Belgian painter, Léon Herbo. I’m not really sure why that one post attracted so much attention! Other popular posts were on Arthur Hill (an artist so obscure I know nothing whatsoever about him), Dutch painter Theo Molkenboe and English painter  Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning. It’s pleasing to see than an Australian artist made my top five - Norman Lindsay. What this does suggest is that posts on little-known artists seem to attract the most interest.

Most of my page views come from the United States, but with Russia in second place followed by Australia.

When I started this blog I intended to cover 19th century poetry as well as painting. That was an idea that got quickly forgotten - perhaps I should revive it?

Traffic overall has been fairly slow this year although with a bit of a spike last month.

I’m hoping to continue blogging pretty regularly in 2016. And since he's evidently so popular here's another Léon Herbo painting for you.

Léon Herbo, La Charmeuse, 1890

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (1743-1809)

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (1743-1809)

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard, Ossian's Swansong, ca. 1782

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard, Culmin's Ghost Appears to his Mother, 1794

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard, Nightmare, 1800, after Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare (1781)

Merry Christmas everybody!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Leon Kroll (1884-1974)

Leon Kroll (1884-1974), American painter.

Leon Kroll, Nude in a Blue Interior, 1919

Leon Kroll, In the Hills, 1920-21

Leon Kroll, Girls at the Exhibition, 1964

Ludwig von Hofmann (1861-1945)

Ludwig von Hofmann (1861-1945), German painter.

Ludwig von Hofmann, Notturno, 1897

Ludwig von Hofmann, On the River of the Dead, 1900

Hugo Birger (1854-1887)

Hugo Birger (1854-1887), Swedish painter.

Hugo Birger, I bersån, 1880

Hugo Birger, Frukosten hos Ledoyen, 1886

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911)

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911), Lithuanian painter, writer and composer.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Kings' Fairy Tale, 1908-09

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Angel, 1908

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Fairy Tale Castle, 1909

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Fairy Tale - I, 1907

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Rural Cemetery, 1909

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Fairy Tale - III, 1907

Moritz Ludwig von Schwind (1804-1871)

Moritz Ludwig von Schwind (1804-1871), Austrian Romantic painter.

Moritz Ludwig von Schwind, Der Erlkönig, 1830

Moritz Ludwig von Schwind, Genoveva in der Wildnis

Moritz Ludwig von Schwind, Sabina of Steinbach

Moritz Ludwig von Schwind, Die Rose oder Die Künstlerwanderung

Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905)

Victor Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905), Russian symbolist painter.

Victor Borisov-Musatov, The Pool, 1902

Victor Borisov-Musatov, Phantoms, 1903

Victor Borisov-Musatov, On a Balcony, 1899

Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (1870-1960)

Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (1870-1960), Russian painter, critic and stage designer.

Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois, Fountains of Peterhoff

Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois, Alexandre Benois, Illustration to Alexander Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, 1904

Alexandre Benois (1870-1960), Les Sylphides, Scene design, 1909

Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois, Baba Yaga, from the "Alphabet in Pictures", 1904

Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois, Peter the Great Meditating the Idea of Building Saint Petersburg at the Shore of the Baltic Sea

Alexander Mark Rossi (1840-1916)

Alexander Mark Rossi (1840-1916), British painter.

Alexander Mark Rossi, Portrait of an Elegant Lady

Alexander Mark Rossi, Forbidden Books, 1897

Alexander Mark Rossi, On the shores of Bognor Regis, 1887

Wlastimil Hofman (1881–1970)

Wlastimil Hofman (1881–1970), Polish symbolist painter.

Wlastimil Hofman, Makolągwy

Wlastimil Hofman, Violinist and an Angel, 1923

Wlastimil Hofman, Testament mojej sztuki, 1922

Wlastimil Hofman, Na nowy żywot, 1906

Wlastimil Hofman, Concert

Wlastimil Hofman, Madonna, 1909

Henry Bone (1755-1834)

Henry Bone (1755-1834), English painter.

Henry Bone, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante, 1803

Henry Bone, Nymph and Cupid, 1807

Kajetan Stefanowicz (1886-1920)

Kajetan Stefanowicz (1886-1920), Polish artist.

Kajetan Stefanowicz, Paryżanka, 1912-1913

Kajetan Stefanowicz, brak tytułu, 1912-1913

Kajetan Stefanowicz, Śmierć i książątko

Kajetan Stefanowicz, Kobieta i wąż, 1911-1912

Maurice Bompard (1857-1936)

Maurice Bompard (1857-1936), French orientalist painter.

Maurice Bompard, A Seated Woman

Maurice Bompard, L'Attente: Odalisques Dans le Harem

Friedrich Krepp (died 1862)

Friedrich Krepp (died 1862), Austrian artist.

Friedrich Krepp, Portrait of a young woman with roses in her hair, 1853

Friedrich Krepp, Madchen in suditalienies her Tracht, 1850

Nathanael Schmitt (1847-1918)

Nathanael Schmitt (1847-1918), German painter.

Nathanael Schmitt, Allegory of Spring