SIMON VOUET (1590-1649) The Madonna Adoring the Christ Child (1623-26) Oil on canvas 118 x 132 cm Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Simon Vouet is one of the most important French painters of the 19th century. His father Laurent, a painter himself, taught …
Month: February 2018
A Day Out
FRANCIS WHEATLEY RA (1747=1801) The Browne Family (c.1778) Oil on canvas (70 x 89 cm) Yale Institute for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Wheatley was born in Covent Garden, London; he studied at William Shipley's drawing school and the Royal Academy and …
Portrait of an Actress
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (1723-1792) Mrs Abington as Miss Prue in “Love for Love” (1771) Oil on canvas (77 x 64 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" When this portrait was shown as Portrait of a Lady at the third …
A Prospect
JAN SIBERECHT (1627-1703) Wollaton Hall and Park, Nottinghamshire (1697) Oil on canvas 192 x 138 cm Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Jan Siberecht was born in Antwerp, the son of a sculptor of the same name. He trained with …
Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie
PAUL VAN SOMER (1576-1621) Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie (1619) Oil on canvas 206 x 123 cm Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Paul van Somer was one of the leading portraitists at the court of James I. His style was …
Portrait of a Woman
JOHANN JULIUS HEINSIUS (1740-1812) Portrait of a Woman (1781) Canvas 65,5 x 54 cm Private collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Very little is known about this German portraitist, he has been erroneously confused with his elder brother Johann Ernst Heinsius (1731-1794); the confusion still persists to …
A Mother and her Daughter
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of Susanna Fourment and her Daughter Clara (1620-22) Oil on canvas 173 x 117 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The sitters have been identified with complete certainty. Susanna Fourment (1599-1628) and her daughter belonged to …
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1616/18) Oil on canvas 207 x 137 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This moving painting highlights the extraordinary skill and confidence of the young van Dyck, who painted this brilliant Lamentation at the …
Head of a Woman
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Head of a Woman (1618-20) Oil on paper, mounted on panel 49 x 46 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum/Museum of Art History, Vienna To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This oil sketch is akin to the studies from live male models that van Dyck transformed by …
Father and Son
ANTON VAN DYCK (1599-1641) Portrait of a man and a boy (1618-20) Oil on panel 115 x 82 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The following paragraphs belong to the excellent monography about Anton van Dyck by the American art historian Alfred Moir …
Old Masters 