Sang Ik Seo
(b. 1977)

 

Sang-ik Seo is a Korean Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1977. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Atelier Aki have featured Sang-ik Seo's work in the past.Sang-ik Seo's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1,178 USD to 5,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2020 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,500 USD for A scene with Hockney 2, sold at Seoul Auction in 2020.

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Sang-ik-Seo/87ED873AF0BF4350/Biography

Sunday PM 4
2007
Oil on canvas
162 × 130 cm
Private collection

Willem van Mieris
(1662– 1747)
 

Willem van Mieris  was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden. He was born in Leiden and studied under his father Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1682), who was a successful genre painter. Willem had a reasonably successful career, being supported by a few patrons who commissioned and collected various of his works. His oeuvre consists mostly of genre and portraiture, with some landscape painting, as well as some sculptures. Van Mieris' style was that of the fijnschilders (painters in the "fine manner"), and his genre works, especially later in his career, depicted scenes from upper-class society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_van_Mieris

The Sleeping Hurdy Gurdy player
1690
Oil on panel
24.5 x 20.5 cm
The Kremer Collection, Amsterdam
https://thekremercollection.com/paintings/willem-van-mieris-a-tavern-scene-with-a-sleeping-hurdy-gurdy-player/

Rembrandt
(1606 - 1669)
 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, mononymously known simply as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandtx

Sleeping Puppy
1640
etching and drypoint
39 x 81 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Sleeping-Puppy--932c8e8c8eb95e1de68e542cc7d2241c

Henri Rousseau
(1844 - 1910)

 

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Rousseau

The Sleeping Gypsy
1897
Oil on canvas
129.5 × 200.7 cm
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80172

William Powell Frith
(1819 - 1909)

 

William Powell Frith RA was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting The Sleeping Model as his Diploma work. He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Powell_Frith

The Sleeping Model
1853
Oil on canvas
63.2 x 72.8 cm
The Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-sleeping-model

Albert Anker
(1831 - 1910)

 

Albert Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss social life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Anker

Two Girls on the Stove Bench
1895
Oil on canvas
55,5 x 71,5 cm
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

 I would like to end this Quixotic month with a portrait of the creator of this phenomenon, but recently (since 1950) none of the available portraits are considered authentic. 

This is the portrait attributed to Juan de Jáuregui.

Juan de Jáuregui
1583- 1641)
 

Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar was a Spanish poet, scholar and painter in the Siglo de Oro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Jáuregui

(Possibly) Cervantes. Attributed to Juan de Jáuregui
Circa 1600
Oil on panel
60 x 49.4 cm
Royal Academy of History, Madrid, Spain

 

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra commonly said to be that which, according to the prologue to Cervantes' "Exemplary Novels", was painted by Juan de Jáuregui. Modern scholarship does not accept this, or any other graphic representation of Cervantes, to be authentic, nor is there any documentation for Jáuregui having painted this portrait.