The work is a three-quarter length portrait of Johanna Martens (1599—1639), the wife of Antonie van Hilten (1586—1670), Secretary of State of Utrecht (dignified by...
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The sitter is likely the 20-year-old Maria Trip. She hailed from an extremely wealthy family involved in the arms trade. Here, she displays her affluence in full...
Philips Lucaszoon was a senior official with the Dutch East India Company. He had returned to the Netherlands in 1633. Rembrandt (1606—1669) painted this portrait...
In the 1630s, Thomas de Keyser was the most fashionable portrait painter in Amsterdam, and his work was popular with the middle and upper classes of that city. As one of...
The regentesses Clara Abba, Elisabeth van Duynen, and Agatha Munter administered Amsterdam’s leper house, a charitable institution. Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol...
Rembrandt painted Oopjen Coppit (1611—1689), the wife of Maerten Soolmans (see the post from 8th December), when she was pregnant with her first child at the age of 23....
“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life,...
Amalia van Solms (1602—1675) was a German noblewoman who became the Princess of Orange and consort of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, significantly shaping Dutch...
By 1624 Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy (1588—1650/1656) was one of the most remarkable and sought-after portraitists in Amsterdam, a stature he retained until the arrival of...
The portraits of Maerten Soolmans and his wife Oopjen Coppit (I’ll post separately), two masterpieces painted in 1634, when Rembrandt was just 28 years old, have been...
Catharina Hooft became famous at a very early age, when she was painted by the Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals (1582/3—1666). In this triumph of characterisation, the...
Marie de’ Medici, Queen of France, in a ceremonial gown of blue velvet with gold fleur-de-lis brooches, ermine garnishes and precious-stone appliqués over a blouse with...
Le Crépuscule, or Dusk, was one of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s most acclaimed works. It is the first in a series of canvases representing the four Times of Day: the...
Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702—1789) enjoyed great success and was highly acclaimed as a pastel painter in his own day; even the most famous artist working in...
Aurora, or Dawn, was one of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s most acclaimed works. It is the first in a series of canvases representing the four Times of Day: the others...
“But whom to love? To trust and treasure? Who won’t betray us in the end? And who’ll be kind enough to measure Our words and deeds as we intend?” — Alexander Pushkin,...
Jeanne Bôle (1825—1891) was the pseudonym of an artist Marie Léonide Marguerite de Toulza, Comtesse de Toulza born into the noble de Toulza family, and which was the...
Dennis Perrin’s (1950—2021) Impressionist style works are done fully from life and express his love of beauty in the figures, in the landscape or flowers. He painted...
Jean Ranc (1674—1735) was a French Baroque painter known for his court portraits. At the behest of Philip V of Spain, he traveled to Madrid in 1722 to make various...
Francisco Masriera y Manovens (1842—1902), an important Spanish genre painter was born in Barcelona in 1842. He was a pupil of Serra and worked often with his brother...
Kazimierz Mordasewicz (1859—1923) was born in Minsk. As a young man he pursued a militry career. He then began an artistic career entering the Warsaw School of Drawing...
“Come back... even as a shadow, even as a dream...” — Euripides. Parker Hagarty, Grief, 19th century, Private collection. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
A painter of still-lifes, portraits, and genre scenes, William J. McCloskey (1859—1941) was an important figure in California’s early art scene and best known for...
Gustav Pope (1831—1910) was a British Victorian painter of Austrian origin. After his migration from Austria, he entered the country’s artistic scene through the...
Lauded for his dazzling brushwork and ability to capture the likeness of the subject, American artist Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861—1948) became the artist of choice for a...
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836—1904) was closely associated with the Impressionists, but refused to exhibit at the first Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. His still lifes...
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” — Émile Zola. Tuke Henry Scott, Miss Muriel Lubbock, 1898,...
José Mirabent y Gatell (1831—1899) was a Spanish painter and decorator, professor at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, his hometown. He specialised in floral still...
Bennett Oates (1928—2009) was born in London in 1928. He had a broad interest in painting and examples of his portraiture, landscape and animal paintings can be found in...
Discovering the beauty of the Blenheim Palace and the gardens 🏰⚜️ @blenheimpalace 🩷 It’s a grand estate of Dukes of Marlborough near Oxford, famous for its historical...
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