Monday, May 25, 2026

 Rupert Bunny
(1864 - 1947)
 

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, he achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris. He gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 with his Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria. The French state acquired 13 of his works for the Musée du Luxembourg and regional collections. He was a "sumptuous colourist and splendidly erudite painter of ideal themes, and the creator of the most ambitious Salon paintings produced by an Australian."

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

Sea idyll
1891
Oil on canvas
100.5 x 161.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/4205/

Sunday, May 24, 2026

 Rosa Bonheur
(1822 - 1899)
 

Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.

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

Sheep by the Sea
1865
Oil on cradled panel
32.3 x 45.7 cm 
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
https://nmwa.org/art/collection/sheep-sea/

Saturday, May 23, 2026

 Richard Beavis
(1824 - 1896)

Very little is known about the English painter Richard Beavis. We know that he was born in Exmouth in 1824 and moved to London in 1846 to study at the academy in Somerset House. From 1852, his work was admitted to the prestigious annual exhibition of the Royal Academy.

https://scheveningentoenennu.nl/strandschilders/18001900AL/beavis/3beavis/index.html

Gathering seaweed
mid-to-late 19th Century
Watercolour
46 x 33 cm
Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/36055?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c

Friday, May 22, 2026

 Another one from the Skagen group:
 

Peder Severin Krøyer
(1851 - 1909)

Peder Severin Krøyer, also known as P. S. Krøyer, was a Danish painter.

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

Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach
1893
Oil on canvas
100 x 150 cm
Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark

Thursday, May 21, 2026

 Paul-Michel Dupuy 
(1869 - 1949)
 

Paul-Michel Dupuy was a French painter.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Michel_Dupuy

Praia de Biarritz [Biarritz Beach]
1913
Oil on canvas
154 × 380 cm
Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brasil

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Oscar Björck
(1860 - 1929)
 

Oscar Gustaf Björck was a Swedish painter and a professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. 

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

Launching the Boat. Skagen
1884
Oil on canvas
160 × 194 cm
Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launching_the_Boat._Skagen

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

 Nicholas Chevalier
(1828 - 1902)

Nicholas Chevalier was a Russian-born artist who worked in Australia and New Zealand.

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

Cook Strait, New Zealand
1884
Oil in canvas
183 × 91 cm.
Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/631373?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c


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