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 …
The Virgin and Child
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 …
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 …
Old Masters 