Georges de La Tour
(1593 - 1652)
 

Georges de La Tour  was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
Recognised during his lifetime, he was quickly forgotten after his death. Rediscovered in the early 20th century by German art historian Hermann Voss, he later inspired writers as diverse as René Char, André Malraux, Pascal Quignard, and Charles Juliet.

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

Saint Joseph charpentier (Joseph the Carpenter)
1640s
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010063817

 Paulus Potter
(1625 - 1654)
 

Paulus Potterwas a Dutch painter who specialized in landscapes featuring animals, often from a low vantage point.
Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he produced about 100 paintings, working continuously.

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

A Farrier's Shop (The Blacksmith)
1648
Oil on panel
48.3 x 45.7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1191-farriers-shop

 Quiringh van Brekelenkam
(1622 - 1669)

Quirijn or Quiringh Gerritsz van Brekelenkam was a Dutch Baroque genre painter. He probably studied under Gerard Dou, and as a result his paintings from the 1640s and 1650s are similar to those of the Leiden fijnschilders.

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

The Shoemaker
c. 1660
Oil on wood
51.1 x 65.7 cm
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin
https://www.museum-schwerin.de/wiedereroeffnung/

 Annibale Carracci
(1560 – 1609)
 

Annibale Carracci was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his younger brother Agostino Carracci and elder cousin Ludovico Carracci (with whom he also worked collectively), Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism. Painters working under Annibale at the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese would be highly influential in Roman painting for decades.

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

The Butcher’s Shop
early 1580s
Oil on canvas
59.7 x 71 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198008

 David Hockney
(2022) 

 

 Looking at the Flowers (Framed), 25th June 2022, is a limited edition photographic drawing by David Hockney, printed on paper and mounted on Dibond. The composition shows a close study of vibrant blooms arranged indoors, where rich colour contrasts and strong contours energise the scene. Hockney’s precise digital mark-making captures the freshness of cut flowers while the large scale heightens their sculptural presence within the frame.
 
Created in 2022 using digital photography and drawing techniques, this edition reflects Hockney’s continued pursuit of new tools to transform everyday subjects. He has noted that digital devices allow him to “draw without any fuss, just as fast as I can look,” a philosophy evident in the immediacy and clarity of this work. With only 35 editions at 108.5 x 188.5 cm, Looking at the Flowers sits at the centre of his contemporary practice and remains highly sought after on the secondary market.

Within the composition, Hockney is depicted twice - once on the right side of the scene, and once on the left - sitting in an armchair and looking upon his twenty flower still lifes displayed salon-style on a navy-blue wall. "This is photographic but is in no way an ordinary photograph," Hockney describes. "I had been doing what I called photographic drawings, giving a much more 3D effect. This is because you have to look at these through time (unlike an ordinary photograph which you see all at once)."

Looking at the flowers
Photographic drawing printed on paper, mounted on Dibond 
Edition of 35, 
108.5 x 188.5 cm
Private collection
https://geistmc.com/our-artists/david-hockney/20-flowers-and-some-bigger-pictures/looking-at-the-flowers-framed-2022/

 <b>David Hockney</b>
(2021) 

<i>This self-portrait belongs to a group of works begun in late 2021, executed quickly and broadly so the marks of the artist’s brush are clearly visible.

Exhibited for the first time at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum in 2022</i>

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/david-hockney-fitzwilliam-museum-bradford-cambridge-normandy-b2034664.html

Self-portrait 22nd November
2021
Acrylic on canvas
28.2 x 42.3 cm
Private collection

 David Hockney
(2017) 

A Bigger Interior with Blue Terrace and Garden 2017 is a painting by British artist David Hockney. Hockney completed the painting in 2017 and it is seen as one of his more famous contemporary works. It is an irregular shape, hexagonal with maximum dimensions of 48 by 96 inches (120 cm × 240 cm) and was made using acrylic paint.

A Bigger Interior with Blue Terrace and Garden 
2017
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 240 cm
Private collection
https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/artwork/2807