Saturday, September 13, 2025

 J. M. W. Turner
(1775 - 1851)
 
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, 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 rivaling history painting.

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


The Fish Market at Hastings Beach 
1810
Oil on canvas
90.8 x 120.6  cm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/25102/fish-market

Friday, September 12, 2025

Edward Bawden 
(1903 - 1989)

Edward Bawden, CBE RA was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War II. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists, and his work and career is often associated with that of his contemporary Eric Ravilious.

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

Covent Garden Flower Market
1967
Lithograph on paper
46 x 161 cm
Tate Gallery, London, UK
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bawden-covent-garden-flower-market-p06021


Thursday, September 11, 2025

Oswald Achenbach
(1827–1905 )
 

Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega). 

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

Market square of Amalfi
1876
Oil on canvas
128 x 111 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/960957

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Jerome Myers
(1867–1940)
 

Jerome Myers was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people.He was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.


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

Market in Paris, 
1920
Oil on canvas
76.5 x 63.5 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/market-paris

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

 <b>Léon Lhermitte</b> 
 (1844–1925)

<i>Léon Augustin Lhermitte was a French naturalist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work. </i>

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


Apple Market, Landerneau 
(c. 1878)
oil on canvas
85 x 120 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/102973
Landerneau is a market town in Brittany, France.

Apple Market, Landerneau, 
1878
drawing
pen and brown ink over tracing in red chalk
26.6 x 38 xm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland USA
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.356

Monday, September 8, 2025

 No food in the next artwork, sometimes markets were used for other occasions…
 

Thomas Rowlandson
(1757 - 1827)

Thomas Rowlandson was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as a large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. Rowlandson also produced highly explicit erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte. 

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


Covent Garden Market
1808
Hand-colored etching and aquatint 
Plate 23 × 24.3 cm, 
The MET (among others)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/744268

This print records temporary wooden stands erected outside St.Paul's Church in Covent Garden Market to allow politicians running for Parliament in the Westminster election to address voters. On this occasion a large crowd has gathered, carrying banners and spilling out into the square, with some figures perched on a roof at right to listen to a speaker.

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
(1699–1779)
 
Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work. 

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


The Return from the Market (a.k.a. The Provider), 
1738
oil on canvas
46.7 × 37.5 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/the-return-from-the-market

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