CHARLES FRANCOIS LACROIX (LACROIX DE MARSEILLE) (c.1700-1782) Port Scene (1764) Ship Running Aground (1764) Oil on copper 23 x 30,5 cm Private collection Little is known about the artist's early life or when he exactly arrived in Italy, as he is not recorded until 1750 when the marquis de Vandieres met him in Rome. A …
Month: February 2018
The Blacksmith’s Shop
JOHN CROME (1768-1821) The Blacksmith's Shop Near Hingham, Norfolk (1808)* Oil on canvas 154 x 122 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art (*) The photo is an HD image provided by http://www.gallerix.ru To enlarge the image, right-click on it and open it in a new tab Although most of “Old” Crome's artistic production took place in …
A Modest Gentleman
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH William Johnstone-Pulteney, later 5th Baronet (1772) Oil on canvas (237 x 150 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" In an undated letter addressed by Gainsborough to Johnstone-Pulteney, the artist reveals how much did he care for his …
The Harley Sisters
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH Anne Harley, Lady Rodney (1758-1840) Martha Harley, Mrs. George Drummond (1757-1788) To enlarge the pictures, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" It has been said, and I agree with it, that Gainsborough was at his best when portraying women. There is a certain charm that enhances their beauty, the poses …
The Abduction of Proserpine
FRANCOIS GIRARDON (1628-1715) The Abduction of Proserpine (1693-1710) Bronze = Height: 105 cm Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Girardon, the most important sculptor of Louis XIV, had a solid academic background thanks to a scholarship provided by Chancellor Seguier. The young …
The Child Christ
ANTON MARIA MARAGLIANO (1664-1739) The Child Christ (c. 1700) Painted wood with glass eyes (Height: 73 cm) Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the pictures, right-click on them and "open in a new tab" Born in Genoa, the son of a baker, Anton Maria Maragliano entered as an apprentice in his maternal uncle's …
The Cricket Player
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1738-1815) Richard Heber (1782) Oil on canvas (166 x 130 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Copley was an Anglo-American painter who achieved notoriety in his home town of Boston through hard work and precocious natural …
A Drawing Lesson
JOSEPH WRIGHT ARA (1734-1797) Academy by Lamplight (1768-69) Oil on canvas (127 x 101 cm) Yale Center of British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Born to a family of lawyers Joseph Wright decided to become a painter and in 1751 set off to …
Hogarth’s Portrait
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) Self-portrait (1730's) Oil on canvas 54 x 51 cm Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA Hogarth was among the most skilled, financially astute, and patriotic artists of his generation. Much of his subject matter was inspired by his own difficult childhood, marked strongly by his father's confinement to the debtor's …
A Classical Landscape
HENDRIK FRANS VAN LINT (1684-1763) A Classical landscape with figures in front of a temple (1748) Oil on canvas: 48 x 72 cm Private collection Hendrik Frans van Lint was born in Antwerp, the son of the history painter Pieter van Lint. As his father died when he was only 6 years old he became …
Old Masters 