FRANS VAN MIERIS I (1635-1681) Allegory of Painting (1661) Oil on copper 12,5 x 8,5 cm The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles To enlarge the image, right-click on it and open it in a new tab Frans van Mieris I was a leading member of the fijnschilders (fine painters), a group of artists active …
Month: February 2018
Husband and Wife
GODFRIED SCHALCKEN (1643-1706) Self-portrait (1679) Portrait of the Artist's Wife (1679) Oil on copper, 41,5 x 30,5 cm Prince of Lichtenstein's Collection, Vaduz To enlarge the pictures, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" (*) (*) The images have been kindly provided by the Princely Collections of the House of Liechtenstein. I recommend …
Lady in a Pink Dress
ALLAN RAMSAY (1713-1784) A Lady in a Pink Silk Dress (c.1762) Oil on canvas (76 x 64 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA Allan Ramsay's portrait of a young woman leaning pensively on a parapet and looking wistfully out at the viewer is one of his most striking and moving works. Combining a …
James Caulfeild
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) James Caulfeild, 4th Viscount Charlemont, later 1st Earl Charlemont (1753-56) Oil on canvas (98 x 74 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Pompeo Batoni was the portraitist of choice for the young British and Irish men …
Mary Little
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788) Mary Little, later Lady Carr (1763) Oil on canvas (127 x 101 cm) Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This painting may have been commissioned to celebrate the marriage of Mary Little to Robert Carr, who …
Lady Le Despencer
SIR WILLIAM BEECHEY (1753-1839) Elizabeth Eliot, Lady Le Despencer (1795-97) Oil on canvas (63 x 48 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Few artists of his generation probed more subtly the characters of their sitters than William Beechey. Born in Burford, …
Count Niccolo Soderini
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Portrait of the Count Niccolo Soderini (1765) Oil on canvas (134 x 97 cm) Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Roma To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Pompeo Batoni was born in Lucca, Tuscany, the son of a goldsmith. Trained by his father he …
An Old Woman
CHRISTIAN SEYBOLD (1690-1768) Portrait of an Old Woman, 1749-50 Oil on copper (37x29 cm) Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Until recently this painting had been attributed to Balthasar Denner (1685-1749), a highly successful and slightly older contemporary of Christian …
Johann Winckelmann
ANTON VON MARON Portrait of Johann Winckelmann (1768) Oil on canvas (136 x 100 cm) Schlossmuseum, Weimar To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and open it in a new tab This is von Maron's finest portrait, a work of art that truly deserves the title of a masterpiece. Painted a few months before Winckelmann's …
Samuel Ampzing
FRANS HALS (1582-1666) Samuel Ampzing (c.1630) Oil on copper (16,5 x 12 cm) Private Collection, United States To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and open it on a new tab "This exquisite portrait, one of three known works that Frans Hals painted on copper, depicts the Haarlem clergyman, poet, and historian Samuel Ampzing (1590–1632) …
Old Masters 