Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Thomas Dewing
(1851 – 1938)

Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution has a collection of his works. He was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing. 

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



The Letter
1908
oil on panel
49.8 × 61 cm
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, United States
https://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/54976/the-letter?ctx=9eb1acf5f9624a72bbe9d953d33a5e605d4f3c40&idx=0

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Manuel Diaz Meré
(b. 1988)
 
Manuel Diaz Meré (Madrid, 1988) was born into a family of musicians, engineers and painters. His early vocation for the drawing and influence of his grandfather, musician and painter, determined his decision to devote himself to painting, licensing in Fine Arts by the Complutense University of Madrid (2014). He continued his training as a figurative painter through several master workshops taught by renowned artists such as Antonio López (Masterful Workshop of painting of Fabero, 2016, 2017 and 2019; IX Course of the Extraordinary Chair City of Albacete, 2018), Julio López Hernández and Tomás Bañuelos Ramón (Masterful Workshop of sculpture of Fabero, 2017), among others.

https://zapadores.org/profile/manuel-diaz-mere/


Selfportrait at the mirror with dust
2020
Oil on wood
101 × 80 cm
Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores, Madrid, Spain 

Monday, January 19, 2026

Claude Lefèbvre
(1632 - 1675)

Claude Lefèbvre was a French painter and engraver.
In 1654 he studied with Eustache Le Sueur in Paris, and after Le Sueur's death in 1655, with Charles Le Brun. Under Le Brun he probably assisted in the preparation of cartoons (untraced) for the tapestry series History of the King (Château of Versailles) and painted a Nativity (untraced) for Louis XIV, but Le Brun found Lefèbvre's compositions poor and encouraged him to specialize in portraiture.
Lefèbvre soon established himself as a leading portrait artist, and in 1663, at the age of thirty, he was received (reçu) as a member of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture in anticipation of his portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (Château of Versailles). Lefèbvre spent several years creating the portrait and finally presented it on 30 October 1666. He was an assistant professor at the Académie beginning in 1664. Among his students were François de Troy and Jean Cotelle, le jeune.



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


The Artistes Eldest Daughter Combing her Little Brother's Hair
17th Century
Oil on canvas
102 × 82.5  cm.
Rmn-Grand Palais, Paris, France
https://musee-magnin.fr/en/collection/objet/artists-eldest-daughter-combing-her-little-brothers-hair

Sunday, January 18, 2026

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

A Young Woman at her Toilet
1667
Oil on panel
58 × 75.5 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/1738/A-Young-Woman-at-Her-Toilet

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Edward Henry Corbould
(1815 - 1905)
 

Edward Henry Corbould, R.I was a British artist, noted as a historical painter and watercolourist. Corbould was known for his water-colours, in which he produced subjects illustrating literature (mainly from Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare), history, and daily life. A few of his pictures are in oils (e.g. The Canterbury Pilgrims, 1874).

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

The magic mirror 
1853
Watercolour
118 × 151 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/302.2016/

The subject of this painting is from Sir Walter Scott’s poem 'The lay of the last minstrel' (1805). The lovesick Earl of Surrey – courtier, soldier and poet at the court of Henry VIII – is awestruck before an apparition of ‘the fair Geraldine’, to whose lifelong service he had devoted his pen. He kneels in a magic circle surrounded by an array of cabbalistic implements. The vision of Surrey’s unattainable maiden (seen reclining on a couch reading her lover’s verses) is conjured in a magic mirror by the agency of the sorcerer, Cornelius Agrippa.

Friday, January 16, 2026

Archimede Bresciani da Gazoldo
(1881- 1939)
 
Archimede Bresciani  was an Italian painter.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimede_Bresciani
 

Woman in the mirror (The Spanish shawl)
1924
Oil on canvas
207 x 145 cm 
Museo d'Arte Moderna dell'Alto Mantovano, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti, Italy

Thursday, January 15, 2026

 Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)
 

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. His career spanned more than 76 years, from his late teens to his death in 1973. 

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

Girl before a Mirror 
1932
Oil on canvas
162 × 130 cm 
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78311

<i>The painting is a portrait of Picasso's mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who is depicted standing in front of a mirror looking at her reflection. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1938.</I>

Thomas Dewing (1851 – 1938) Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing ...