Saturday, May 16, 2026

Jules Breton
(1827 - 1906)
 

Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence. 

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


The Washerwomen of the Breton Coast
1870
Oil on canvas
135.2 x 200.6 cm 
Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, United States
https://www.msoe.edu/grohmann-museum/

Friday, May 15, 2026

 Jozef Israëls
(1824 - 1911)
 

Jozef Israëls was a Dutch painter. He was a leading member of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School and was, during his lifetime, "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century."

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

Children of the Sea
1872
Oil on canvas
48.5 × 93.5 cm 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Children-of-the-Sea--98cc90bcb55dfc39dda04341bc8414c1

Thursday, May 14, 2026

 John Constable
(1776 - 1837)

John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area on the borderland of Suffolk and north Essex surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling"

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

Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill
ca. 1820
Oil on canvas
33 x 50.8 cm
Yale Center For British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:651

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Joaquín Sorolla

(1863 - 1923)
 

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water.

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

Fisherwomen with her son
1908
oil on canvas
90 x 128 cm
Sorolla Museum, Madrid, Spain

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

J. M. W. Turner
(1775 - 1851)
 

Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His artistic style developed over his lifetime, moving away from Romanticism—bypassing the following rising style of Realism—and, instead, with his later works being a significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. In 1969 art historian Kenneth Clark wrote of Turner: "He was a genius of the first order—far the greatest painter that England has ever produced..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner

The Fish Market at Hastings Beach
1810
Oil on canvas
90 cm 120 cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Monday, May 11, 2026

Isaac Israëls
(1865 - 1934 )
 

Isaac Lazarus Israëls was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.

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

Riding Donkeys on the Beach
c. 1900
Oil on canvas
51 x 70 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Ezeltje-rijden-langs-het-strand--d44617841d6ead8f49e6d440836a72a5

Despite the casual nature of the subject, Israëls made several other works with the same theme. Sometimes they give the impression of studies. Nevertheless, these works would later become his best known works and thus from the impressionist painting in the Netherlands.



Isaac Israëls painting on the beach at Scheveningen, Netherlands, c. 1900–1903

 


Riding Donkeys on the Beach c. 1900

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Ferdinand Keller
(1842 – 1922)

Ferdinand Keller, or von Keller  was a German genre and history painter. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Keller_(painter)

Coastal Landscape close to Rio de Janeiro
1864
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 87 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Ferdinand-Keller/K%C3%BCstenlandschaft-bei-Rio-de-Janeiro/C066F030484D7D09148891B0E70524B8/




Jules Breton (1827 - 1906)   Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influen...