“Look around you — the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are foolish and we don’t understand that...
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Georg Emil Libert (1820—1908) was an accomplished Danish landscape painter known primarily for his grand naturalistic depictions of Jutland and Bornholm. Georg Emil...
The artist’s wife Mary modelled for the figure, and the garden belonged to Holland House in Kensington. Artist John Young-Hunter (1874—1955) was born in Glasgow and...
Charles Courtney Curran’s (1861—1942) artistic style and link with Impressionism remained consistent throughout his career. His depiction of women and children among...
“To paint the sea, you must love it, and to love it, you must know the sea.” — Frederick Judd Waugh. Frederick Judd Waugh, A Dawn Flight, 1861, Private collection....
Julius Kronberg (1850—1921) was a Swedish artist and decorative painter. He was born in Karlskrona. Already at the age of fourteen, he was accepted at the Art Academy...
Inspired by the bold, flat style Post-Impressionist movement of the late 1890s — the Nabis — a group of painters with whom he was briefly associated — Swiss-born artist...
Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas (1832—1895) was a Dutch-American marine painter. Contemporaries lauded his work for its realistic nature, which was attributed to his...
Albert Julius Olsson (1864—1942) was a British landscape artist. He was born in Islington, London, to a Swedish father and an English mother. Olsson had no formal...
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy. Louis Gurlitt, View of Kullen in Sweden. Smugglers Hiding their Goods...
During his almost 60-year career he created around 6,000 paintings. The sea became his teacher and would show itself to him under all its facets, providing him with...
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” ― Theodore Dreiser. Jacob van Walscapelle, A peony, an iris, a poppy, anemones, morning glory and other flowers, in a glass...
William Bradford’s 1869 expedition to the Arctic was part of a broader wave of scientific and economic interest in polar exploration in the second half of the 1800s....
Luca Forte's original meaning for this bountiful still life has been lost, but it may be an evocation of the bounty of autumn. The grapes, apples, and pears represent...
Edward Okuń (1872—1945) was a Polish Art Nouveau painter and illustrator. He studied art in Warsaw, Munich and Paris. Over 20 years he lived in Rome and travel a lot...
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre. Ilya Zankovsky, Darial Gorge (Darjalpasset),...
Norwegian artist Peder Balke (1804—1887) visited the North Cape only once, in 1832, but the experience became a touchstone of his imagination for the rest of his life....
Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (1840—1905) was a Finnish landscape painter. He studied art at Düsseldorf. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1897. He...
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” ― Mark Twain. Georg Eduard Otto Saal, Forest Landscape in the Moonlight, 1861, Rijksmuseum,...
Ancient Greek poet Sappho depicted here as ‘la femme fatale’ at the Leucadian cliff, from where she threw herself into the sea because of her broken heart, her love to a...
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