Gaetano Gandolfi
(1734 - 1802)
Gaetano Gandolfi was an Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor of the late Baroque period, mainly active in and around Bologna. He is known for his biblical, mythological and allegorical subjects, as well as his portraits and nudes. He was both a painter on canvas and a fresco painter. Gaetano and his older brother Ubaldo were among the leading artists in Italy during their lifetime. This reputation was earned by the excellent quality of their work, which lead to numerous major commissions from courts all over Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Gandolfi
Allegory of Beauty
Circa 1779
Oil on canvas
94.5 × 76.5 cm
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
https://bremen.museum-digital.de/object/77?navlang=en
The Gandolfi family maintained one of the leading painting workshops in 18th-century Bologna. Gaetano Gandolfi created these oval companion pieces for the Buratti family, who kept them in their palace on the Piazza San Martino. The first painting is an allegory of beauty featuring a young couple adorned with floral wreathes. The young man leans on a harp, alluding to the peaceful and poetic Arcadia of shepherd idylls and music. At the same time, he holds up a mirror to the young woman so that she may admire her coral necklace. As an attribute of Prudentia (wisdom, self-knowledge), the mirror may also indicate that both are aware of the danger inherent in beauty.
Paulus Moreelse
1571 - 1638)
Paulus Moreelse was a Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.
In 1611, along with Abraham Bloemaert, he was one of the founders of a new painters' guild, called "St. Lucas-gilde", and became its first deken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulus_Moreelse
George Hendrik Breitner
(1857- 1923)
George Hendrik Breitner was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials for his paintings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hendrik_Breitner
The Earring
circa 1893
Oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/101543/the-earring
Jean-Étienne Liotard
(1702- 1789)
Jean-Étienne Liotard was a Genevan painter, pastellist, printmaker, art theorist and art dealer. Born in the Republic of Geneva as the son of exiled French Huguenots, he spent most of his career working in cities such as Rome, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, London, Amsterdam and other cities. He is best known for his detailed, strikingly naturalistic portraits in pastel and Orientalist scenes of life in Turkey. As an art theorist he wrote the Traité des Principes et règles de la Peinture (Treatise on the Principles and Rules of Painting) in which he argued that painting should to be a mirror of nature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Étienne_Liotard
Portrait of John, Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute
Pastel, on vellum
114.9 × 90.2 cm
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108GFH
Jean-Étienne Liotard depicted the charismatic English nobleman in an elegant setting--a re-creation of a salon in Geneva appointed with Rococo furnishings such as firedogs ornamented with cherubs and a Chinese folding screen used to stop cold drafts. Above the mantel, Liotard depicted Mountstuart's handsome profile and dignified posture in a gilded mirror.
Isaac Israëls (1865- 1934) Isaac Lazarus Israëls was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. https://en.wikipe...
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