JEAN-LEON GEROME

Bathsheba

No.49

Beginning here tomorrow, a short series of paintings by

FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE

an American Impressionist artist

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workshop of GIOVANNI BELLINI

Venetion Embassy to the Mamluks in Damascus in 1511

No.48

Starting here on Sunday 1st June a short series of paintings by

FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE  1874-1939

an American Impressionist artist

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JOHANNES VERMEER

Girl with a Pearl Earring  (1665)

No.47

Starting here on Sunday 1st June

a short series of paintings by

FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE 1874-1939

An American Impressionist artist

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GUY ROSE

The Old Bridge  (1910)

No.46

Guy Rose 1867-1925 was an American Impressionist painter

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JOHAN KROUTHEN

Beach with Bathing Boys  (1906)

No.45

Krouthen 1858-1932 was a Swedish artist who was interested first of all in Realism and later in Idealism.

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TITIAN

Portrait of Gerolamo Barbarigo  (c.1509)

No.44

Tiziano Vecellio c.1490-1576 was an Italian painter who was probably the most important member of the Venetian school, being described by his contemporaries as "the sun amidst small stars." Today's painting is also named as "Man with a Quilted Sleeve."

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CLAUDE MONET

Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge  (1897-9)

No.43

Oscar-Claude Monet 1840-1926 was one of the founders of French Impressionism. One of his customs was to paint the same scene over and over again to capture the changing of the light and the passing of the seasons.

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SAMUEL LUKE FILDES

The Doctor (exhibited 1891)

No.42

Fildes 1843-1927 was a British painter and illustrator. When his wood engraving "Houseless and Hungry" depicting homeless paupers queuing outside the casual ward of a workhouse was seen by Charles Dickens, the author commissioned Fildes to illustrate "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."

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WILLIAM-ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU

The Nut Gatherers (1882)

No.41

Bouguereau 1825-1905 was a French academic painter and traditionalist. During his lifetime it is believed that he produced 822 paintings. Today's painting is one of the most popular at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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EDWARD BURNE-JONES

The Beguiling of Merlin  (1872-77)

No.40

Burne-Jones 1833-98 was a British artist and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. The painting depicts a scene from Arthurian legend, the infatuation of Merlin for Nimue, the Lady of the Lake; he is trapped in a hawthorn bush while Nimue reads from a book of spells.

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JOSHUA REYNOLDS

Lady Caroline Howard  (1778)

No.39

Joshua Reynolds 1723-92 specialised in portraits and promoted the Grand Style of painting which aimed at idealising the imperfect. He was the first president of the Royal Academy and was knighted by George III.

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J.M.W.TURNER

The Fighting Temeraire  (1839)

No.38

This famous painting shows the vessel being tugged to her last berth to be broken up. Although Turner is renowned for his oil paintings, he was also a master of British watercolour landscapes.

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GUSTAVE COURBET

The Painter's Studio  (1855)

No.37

Courbet 1819-77 was the French painter who led the Realist movement in France. He once said that he "belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty."

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ANDREAS ACHENBACH

Clearing Up, Coast of Sicily  (1847)

No.36

Achenbach 1850-1910 was a German landscape painter associated with the Dusseldorf School. He specialised in landscape painting where man is dwarfed by the might of nature

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JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius  (1883)

No.35

J.W. Waterhouse 1849-1917 was born in Italy to English parents, both painters. His Pre-Raphaelite style produced many paintings which feature regularly today in popularity polls. The above painting shows the Emperor with his favourites - birds!

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MARIE BRACQUEMOND

Under the Lamp  (1887)

No.34

Marie Bracquemond (1841-1916) a French painter was described as being one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism, along with Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.

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JEAN-BAPTISTE SIMEON CHARDIN

Woman Cleaning Turnips  (c.1738)

No.33

Chardin 1699-1779 was a French painter who, apart from his depictions of kitchen maids, children and domestic activities, is also remembered as a master of still life.

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Tomorrow -
Under the Lamp
by Marie Bracquemond

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ARNOLD BOCKLIN

The Isle of the Dead  (1883)

No.32

Of the paintings by the Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Bocklin 1827-1901 this is probably the most well-known. According to the author Vladimir Nabokov, they were to be found in every house in Berlin.

Tomorrow - 

Woman cleaning Turnips

by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

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FRANCOIS BOUCHER

Portrait of Marie-Louise O'Murphy  (1752)

Boucher 1703-1770 was a French painter in the Rococo style. Known for his classical themes and pastoral scenes, he also painted a number of portraits of his patroness Madame de Pompadour. The subject of today's painting was a mistress of Louis XV of France.

Tomorrow -

The Isle of the Dead

by Arnold Bocklin

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ANNIBALE CARRACCI

River Landscape  (c.1590)

No.30

Carracci 1560-1609 was was an Italian Baroque painter. His brother Agostino and his cousin Ludovico were also painters.

Tomorrow's painting -

Portrait of Marie-Louise O'Murphy

by Francois Boucher

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SANDRO BOTTICELLI

Primavera  (c.1482)

No.29

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Felipepi (Sandro Botticelli) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance.

"Primavera" also known as "Allegory of Spring" has become one of the most popular paintings in Western art. There's a great deal of information about the painting at -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(painting)

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GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE

The Floor Scrapers  (1875)

No.28

Caillebotte 1848-94, a member of the Impressionist group, was a French painter who also had a keen interest in photography as an art form. Today's painting was considered controversial because of its realist subject.

The new blog THE LANDSCAPES OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL begins today

http://thelandscapesofthehudsonriverschool.blogspot.com

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MARY CASSATT

Lilacs in a Window  (1880)

No.27

Mary Stevenson Cassatt 1844-1926 was an American painter and printmaker.She lived much of her adult life in France where she exhibited among the Impressionists. She is particularly remembered for her studies of women and children.

THE LANDSCAPES OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL

A new blog begins tomorrow 

http://thelandscapesofthehudsonriverschool.blogspot.com

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GIOVANNI BELLINI

Naked Young Woman in front of a Mirror  1515

No.26

Giovanni Bellini 1430-1515 was an Italian Renaissance painter. His father Jacopo Bellini, his brother Gentile Bellini and his brother-in-law Andrea Mantegna were also painters, and Giovanni had two pupils who later became famous, Giorgioni and Titian. The above painting was his first female nude.

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HENDRICK AVERCAMP

Winter Scene on a Canal

No.25

Hendrick Avercamp 1585-1634 was one of the first landscape painters of the 17th century Dutch School. Many of his paintings show people ice-skating on frozen lakes. He was mute and was known as "de Stomme van Kampen" - the mute of Kampen.

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J.W.WATERHOUSE

Miranda - The Tempest  (1916)

No.24

James William Waterhouse 1849-1917 was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite style whose works were known for their depiction of women in both Greek mythology and Arthurian legend.

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VINCENT VAN GOGH

Starry Night  (1889}

No.23

Van Gogh 1853-90

This is the view from the artist's sanatorium window at Saint-Remy-de-Provence in southern France. Although it's a night scene, it was painted from memory during the day.

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THOMAS MORAN

On the Berry Trail Grand Canyon of Arizona

No.22

Thomas Moran 1837-1926 was an artist of the Hudson River School, an American art movement of the mid-19th century made up of landscape painters who had become influenced by Romanticism.

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LEONARDO da VINCI

Mona Lisa  

No.21

This is probably the most famous painting of all time. The artist, who was born in 1452, began painting the picture in 1503 or 1504 and completed it shortly before he died in 1519. The subject is thought to be Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The painting was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now in the Louvre, Paris where 6 million people see it every year

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JEAN-LEON GEROME

The Tulip Folly  (1882)

No.20

Jean-Leon Gerome 1824-1904

The painting illustrates an incident during the craze for tulips which had swept the Netherlands and much of Europe. The tulip had become a very valuable commodity and by 1637 when the market crashed speculators were left with very little of their original investments. In the painting a nobleman is shown guarding an exceptional bloom as soldiers trample flowerbeds in a vain attempt to stabilize the tulip market by limiting the supply.

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IVAN AIVAZOVSKY

"Sea View by Moonlight"  (1878)

No.19

Aivazovsky 1817-1900 was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest marine painters in history. The saying "worthy of Aivazovsky's brush" was coined by Anton Chekhov and came to mean "something ineffably lovely."

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