Friday, May 8, 2026

Eilif Peterssen
(1852 - 1928)

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. He gained early recognition for the history painting Christian II signing the Death Warrant of Torben Oxe and established himself as one of Norway's foremost portrait painters, with portraits of, among others, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg. He also became known for his landscape paintings, and became part of the artist circle known as the Skagen Painters. He also became known for his design in 1905 of Norway's national coat of arms with the Norwegian lion, which was used by the government and the royal house. The design is still used in the royal coat of arms and the royal flag.

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


From the Beach at Sele
1889
Oil on canvas
45 x 28.5 cm
The National Museum, Oslo, Norway
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collection/object/NG.M.00850

Thursday, May 7, 2026

 Édouard Manet
(1832–1883)
 

Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

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

Sur la plage (On the beach)
1873
Oil on canvas
60 x 73.5 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/sur-la-plage-1140

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Claude Monet
(1840 –1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon. 

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

The Cliff Walk at Pourville
1882
oil on canvas
66.5 × 82.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/14620/cliff-walk-at-pourville

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Childe Hassam
(1859 -1935)

Frederick Childe Hassam  was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, oils, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs over the course of his career, and was an influential American artist of the early 20th century. 

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

The South Ledges, Appledore
1913
Oil on canvas
87.0 x 91.6 cm
SAAM, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/south-ledges-appledore-10086

Monday, May 4, 2026

Charles Sims
(1873 - 1928)

Charles Henry Sims RA RWS was a British figurative painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He initially became renowned as a leading Edwardian painter, but following the death of his son in World War I, his work became increasingly idiosyncratic, surreal and controversial. In 1920, he was appointed Keeper, or head, of the Royal Academy Schools, a post he was eventually forced to resign in 1926. At the same time, he became estranged from his wife and children. Sims' final paintings, the Spiritual Ideas, were to some viewers his "most beautiful works," but to others highly disturbing. He committed suicide in 1928. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sims_(painter)

By summer seas
1904
Oil on canvas
90 x 70 cm
Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/38062?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c

Sunday, May 3, 2026

Caspar David Friedrich
(1774 - 1840)

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

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

Moonrise by the Sea or Moonrise over the Sea
1822
Oil on canvas
55 x 71 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/959550

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Antônio Parreiras
(1860 - 1937)

Antônio Diogo da Silva Parreiras was a Brazilian painter, designer, and illustrator. 

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

A view of the beach, São Domingos, Niterói, RJ
1886
Oil on canvas
56 x 99 cm
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Eilif Peterssen (1852 - 1928) Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes an...