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 …
The Gore Family
JOHANN ZOFFANY (1733-1810) The Gore Family with George, 3rd Earl Cowper (1775) Oil on canvas (78 x 98 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Of Hungarian and Bohemian origin Johan Zoffany was born in Frankfurt on 13 March 1733. …
The Four Times of Day
CLAUDE JOSEPH VERNET (1714-1789): Morning and Night (c. 1757) Oil on copper (29,5 x 43,5 cm) Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide To enlarge the images, right-click on them on open in a new tab “It would be difficult to cite, before M. Vernet, a painter who has understood as well as he, the …
Charles Etienne Jordan
ANTOINE PESNE (1683-1757) Portrait of Charles Etienne Jordan (1740) Oil on canvas 145 x 110 cm Huis Doorn, The Netherlands To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "open in a new tab" Antoine Pesne, a nephew of the history painter Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716), went to Italy in 1704 after winning the prestigious …
Sir Robert Clive
ANTON VON MARON (1713-1808) Portrait of Sir Robert Clive (1766) Oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Roma To enlarge the images, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" The first picture was scanned by me from the book "Settecento: L´Europe a Rome", catalogue of the exhibition …
Gerard Meerman
JEAN-BAPTISTE PERRONEAU (1715-1783) Portrait of Gerard Meerman (c.1761) Pastel on paper 88 x 68 cm Museo Meermanno-Westreenianum, The Hague To enlarge the image right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" In the 1750s, two of the best portrait painters of the XVIIIth century; Jean-Baptiste Perroneau and the Swiss Jean-Etienne Liotard came to the …
Old Masters 