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Jean Francois Millet and His Paintings 2008-03-08 11:29:04 Jean Francois Millet was born on a farm near Cherbourg. He went to Paris after receiving a municipal grant that enabled him to study at the Beaux-Arts under Paul Delaroche. Millet first had a painting accepted at the Salon in 1844, and became a member of the French Academy in 1847. [...] Read more:Paintings
New! Rococo Painter Francois Boucher and His Paintings 2008-03-08 05:05:02 Francois Boucher (1703-1770), was a masterful French painter of the Rococo age, extremely popular then and ever since.
Boucher is the son of an artist. He learned many techniques as a child before receiving his formal art education from Francois Lemoyne. His initial job was as an engraver, producing replicas of Watteau’s drawings. [...] Read more:Painter
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New! Henri Rousseau and His Paintings 2008-03-08 04:27:23 Henri Rousseau was best known for his bold pictures of the jungle, teeming with flora and fauna. Yet this painter of exotic locales never left France, notwithstanding stories to the contrary. His paintings were instead the concoctions of a city dweller, shaped by visits to the botanical gardens, the zoo, and colonial expositions as well [...] Read more:Henri
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New! French Rococo Artist Jean-Antoine Watteau and His Paintings 2008-03-04 10:43:54 Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French
rococo artist whose charming and graceful paintings show his interest in theater and ballet, he is probably best known for his fetes gallants. Watteau painted scenes of love and intrigue in dreamy parklands that could have come out of medieval tapestries. Their deliberately precious, unreal atmosphere, [...] Read more:Artist
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New! Francisco Goya and His Paintings 2008-03-02 16:58:52 Francisco de Goya, consummately Spanish artist whose multifarious paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Like Velazquez, Goya was a Spanish court painter whose best work was done apart from his official duties. He is known for his scenes of violence, especially those prompted by the French [...] Read more:Francisco
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New! Frans Hals and His Paintings 2008-03-01 08:47:17 Frans Hals (1582-1666) was the first great artist of the 17th-century Dutch school and is regarded as one of the most brilliant of all portraitists. Almost all his works are portraits and even those that are not (some genre scenes, and an occasional religious picture) are portrait-like in character. He was [...] Read more:Frans
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New! Rembrandt and His Paintings 2008-03-01 01:38:49 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters in the art history.
He was initially successful as a portrait painter, and the self portraits he made throughout his life provide us with a remarkable [...] Read more:Paintings
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New! Diego de Velazquez and His Paintings 2008-02-25 18:35:15 Many of Velazquez’s early works are influenced by Caravaggio. But later on, the Caravaggio elements are simply one of the many ingredients in Velazquez’s unique style. Los Borrachos (The Drunkards) (1629) and Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob (1630) are among Velazquez’s most Caravaggio-like paintings.
From the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Velázquez’s artwork was [...] Read more:Diego
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New! Alfred Sisley and His Landscape Paintings 2008-02-24 14:17:47 Alfred Sisley, the son of English parents, was born in Paris. Sisley was strongly influenced by Corot. In 1862, he studied under Charles Gleyre along with the fellow Impressionists Monet and Renoir. He fist exhibited in the Salon of 1866, then again in 1868 and 1870. The three students became the strong leaders of the [...] Read more:Alfred
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New! Johan Barthold Jongkind and His Paintings 2008-03-22 15:11:38 Johann-Barthold Jongkind (1819 - 1891), Dutch landscape painter, mainly lived in France where he was highly esteemed by the artistic community and art lovers.
Known as “the painter of Honfleur and Paris streets”, Manet used to call him “the father of the modern landscape”, and young painters such as Monet, who was his pupil at [...] Read more:Johan
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5% Discount for Every Alfred Sisley’s Painting 2008-04-01 00:26:12 Alfred Sisley often painted landscapes of the Sienne, Loire, and the Thames Rivers and focused on light in the clouds and reflections, He was very interested in capturing the movement of foliage, the shimmer of water, and the texture of cloud-filled skies than in recording atmospheric changes in light and the [...] Read more:Alfred
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New! Symbolist Painter George Frederick Watts 2008-03-31 09:50:55 George FrederickWatts
was a symbolist painter who it might be said painted ideas not things. He often surrounded his forms with a misty or cloudy atmosphere for the purpose of showing that they are visionary or ideal. Later in his life Watts also produced sculptures. Examples of his work can [...] Read more:George
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New! American Artist James Abbott Whistler and His Paintings 2008-03-31 09:11:29 James Abbott
McNeill Whistler
(1834-1903) was the most important American
artist to that time and would have a profound impact on the course of European and modern art. His colorful personality along with his very unique style would place him at the center of a whole storm of controversies.
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New! Thomas Worthington Whittredge and His Hudson River School Landscapes 2008-03-31 06:54:15 Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910), an important member of the later HudsonRiverSchool
, specialized in landscapes, although he also painted some portraits and still lifes. His mature style incorporates both European and American influences, and celebrates the Catskill Mountains in New York and the American West, particularly the Great Plains.
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The neoimpressionist master Georges Seurat 2008-04-05 10:07:02 Georges Seurat, 1859-91, French neoimpressionist painter. He devised the pointillist technique of painting in tiny dots of pure color. His method, called divisionism, was a systematic refinement of the broken color of the impressionists. Seurat’s famous paintings are his Baignade (Tate Gall., London), shown in the Salon des Independants in 1884, and Un Dimanche a [...]
Toulouse-Lautrec and His Paintings 2008-04-26 11:35:35 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [French Post-Impressionist Painter and Printmaker, 1864-1901], descendant of the counts of Toulouse, was born on November 24, 1864 in the French town of Albi. As a child, Henri was weak and often sick. In 1887 he established himself as an artist in Paris.
For his subjects he took the night-life of Montmartre: circus, [...] Read more:Paintings
New! Paintings of Fashionable Women by James Tissot 2008-05-04 15:37:55 James Tissot (1836-1902). French painter and graphic artist. Early in his career he painted historical costume pieces, but in about 1864 he turned with great success to scenes of contemporary life, usually involving fashionable women.
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New! Emilio Sanchez-Perrier, Bernardo Strozzi, Alfred Emile Stevens, Jacopo Bassano 2008-05-07 10:35:06 Emilio Sanchez
-Perrier (1705-1907), Spanish painter. He painted landscapes, architectures, genre and water scenes, and was renowned for his scenic illustrations of Venice.
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Strozzi Bernardo Strozzi (1570 - 1704) was a prominent and prolific Italian Baroque painter born and active mainly in Genoa, and also active in Venice. He is considered one of the greatest of [...] Read more:Alfred
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Early Impressionist painter Frederic Bazille 2008-05-26 01:50:42 Frederic Bazille studied Gleyre’s studio in 1862 and made the acquaintance of Monet, Renoir, and Sisley. He helped in the development of the Impressionist movement. Bazille painted mostly figures, but depicted them in outdoor settings. Bazille died while serving in the Franco-Prussian War.
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Paintings by Franz Xavier Winterhalter 2008-07-01 18:28:31 Franz Xavier Winterhalter was born in the small village of Mensenschwad in Germany. He studied painting at the academy of Monaco. In 1835, after he painted portrait of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden, Winterhalter was appointed his court painter.
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Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough 2008-07-25 06:12:19 Thomas Gainsborough was born in Suffolk, with recognizable talent even as a child. At 13, his family sent him to study in London under French artist Hubert Gravelot. In 1745, Gainsborough attempted to make a living selling his landscapes, but his business ventures soon failed and he returned to his birthplace. He then moved to [...] Read more:Paintings
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