Friday, October 23, 2026

 Jan de Bray
(c. 1627 – April 4, 1697)
 
Jan de Bray  was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem until the age of 60, when he went bankrupt and moved to Amsterdam.
Jan de Bray was influenced by his father Salomon de Bray, and the portraitists Bartholomeus van der Helst, and Frans Hals. De Bray's works are mainly portraits, often of groups, and history paintings. He specialised in combining the two genres in the portrait historié, portraits of historical figures using contemporary figures, including himself and his family. Among his finest works are two versions of the Banquet of Cleopatra, using his own family, including himself, as models (Royal Collection, 1652, and Currier Museum of Art, New Hampshire, 1669). The second version has great pathos, as most of those depicted had died in the plague of 1663–4.


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


Portrait of Gilbert de Flines
1658 
Oil on wood
67 x 55 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059124

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo
(c.1612 – February 10, 1667)

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo was a Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter, the most distinguished of the followers of his father-in-law Velázquez, whose style he imitated more closely than did any other artist. A fine painter himself, Mazo was a master of landscape, as proven by his most celebrated work View of Saragossa.


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


Portrait of a Woman
c. 1655-1660
Oil on canvas 
154 x 126 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059833 

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

 Henry Raeburn
(4 March - 8July 1823)
 

 Sir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland. 

Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Henry_Raeburn


Portrait of an unknown man
c. 1800 
Oil on canvas
76 x 99 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059904

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

 Hyacinthe Rigaud
 (18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743)
 
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud, was a French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinthe_Rigaud
 

Madame Rigaud in Two Different Poses
1695
Oil on canvas
83 x 103 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062532

Monday, October 19, 2026

 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 
(16 July 1796– 22 February 1875)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the neoclassical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot


La femme à la perle
c. 1869
Oil on canvas
70 x 55 cm 
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059135


Sunday, October 18, 2026

 Jean-Honoré Fragonard
(5 April 1732 – 22 August 1806)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.


L'Étude, dit aussi parfois Le Chant. 
(“Studying” also called “the singing” )
c. 1750
Oil on canvas
82 x 105 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059524

Saturday, October 17, 2026

 Thomas Lawrence
(13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830)

Sir Thomas Lawrence  was an English painter who served as the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square. At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.
He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820. At his death, he was the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe. His reputation waned during Victorian times, but has since been partially restored.


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

Madam Isaac Cuthbert
1817 
Oil on canvas
143 x 182 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010064316

 Jan de Bray (c. 1627 – April 4, 1697)   Jan de Bray  was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem until the age of 60, wh...