Friday, December 19, 2025

 Angelo Inganni
(1807 - 1880)

Angelo Inganni was an Italian painter. 
He exhibited views of various Italian cities in national and international exhibitions. It was in the 1850s, above all after his return to Brescia, that he began to produce genre works of Flemish inspiration with new subjects drawn from rural life and telling effects of light. He frescoed the churches of San Marco and San Carlo in Milan as well as the parish church of Gussago. 



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

Peasant Lighting a Candle with an Ember
1850
Oil on canvas
75 × 102.5  cm.
Fondazione Cariplo, Milano, Italy
https://www.artgate-cariplo.it/collezione-online/page37d.do?link=oln94d.redirect&kcond32d.att1=595&scu5d.scroller.att78d=595

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Henry Robert Morland
1730–1797
 

Henry Robert Morland  was an English portrait painter, best remembered for a portrait of King George III, and for being the father of the animal painter George Morland. 

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


The Ballad Singer
ca. 1764
Oil on canvas
76.2 × 63.5cm
Yale Centre For British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:940

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Matthias Stom
(c. 1600 - 1652)
 

Matthias Stom or Matthias Stomer was a Dutch, or possibly Flemish, painter who is only known for the works he produced during his residence in Italy. He was influenced by the work of non-Italian followers of Caravaggio in Italy, in particular his Dutch followers often referred to as the Utrecht Caravaggists, as well as by Jusepe de Ribera and Peter Paul Rubens. He did not share the other Northern Caravaggisti's preference for humorous, and sometimes scabrous, genre scenes and elaborate decorative allegories but favored stories from the bible instead. He worked in various locations in Italy where he enjoyed the patronage of religious institutions as well as prominent members of the nobility.

Annunciation
Circa 1633 to 1637
Oil on canvas
166 × 113 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Firenze, Italy

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

 Georg Flegel
(1566- 1638)

Georg Flegel was a German painter, best known for his still-life works. Born in Olomouc (now in the Czech Republic), he later worked in Frankfurt am Main, where he became a leading figure in early German still-life painting. 

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

Candlelight Pantry
1630-1635
Oil on canvas
72.5 x 60 cm 
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Georg-Flegel/Vorratskammer-bei-Kerzenlicht/DCBDA55040C0C0FE18BA0BBFC2FE9DC4/

Monday, December 15, 2025

Viktor Madarász 
(1830 - 1917)

Viktor Madarász was a Hungarian painter in the Romantic style. He is best known for his historical scenes and portraits.

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

The Mourning of László Hunyadi 
1859
Oil on canvas
243 × 311.5 cm 
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
https://en.mng.hu/artworks/54526/

László Hunyadi, the son of the great defeater of the Ottomans János Hunyadi who thus became a national hero, was ordered to be killed by Vladislav V. Young Hunyadi enjoyed widespread popularity among the Hungarians, so he was seen as a rival to the young, inexperienced Vladislav V who served foreign interests. The Hunyadi theme was very popular in the history painting of the century; László Hunyadi’s farewell and his dying were eternalized by many and in various ways. The Madarász painting captures a very special moment, the wake. Next to the body, covered by a white shroud are his mother Erzsébet Szilágyi and his bride Mária Gara, their movements and facial expressions mirroring profound grief.

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Godfried Schalcken
(1643 - 1706)
 

Godfried Schalcken was a Dutch artist who specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Schalcken was noted for his night scenes and mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight. He painted in the highly polished style of the Leiden fijnschilders.

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


Fire and Light (A Girl Places a Candle in a Lantern and a Boy Blows on the Coals in a Chafing-Dish)
attributed to Godfried Schalcken, 1690 - 1706
Oil on canvas
46 x 38cm
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Fire-and-Light-A-Girl-Places-a-Candle-in-a-Lantern-and-a-Boy-Blows-on-the-Coals-in-a-Chafing-Dish--1e5628a7eafd9eb84cc338d591de4c56

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Gerrit Dou
(1613 - 1675)
 

Gerrit Dou also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro. He was a student of Rembrandt. 

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

Astronomer by Candlelight
late 1650s
Oil on panel
45.9 × 34.4 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RHZ

 Angelo Inganni (1807 - 1880) Angelo Inganni was an Italian painter.  He exhibited views of various Italian cities in national and internati...