Monday, June 1, 2026

 <b>Caravaggio</b>
(1571 - 1610)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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

Basket of Fruit
circa 1597
Oil on canvas 
67.5 x 54.5 cm
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Piazza Pio XI, 2 Milano
https://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/L0030-00020/

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Henry Ossawa Tanner
(1859 - 1937)

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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

Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City
c. 1885
150.9 x 76.8 cm
Oil on canvas
The White House, Washington, United States
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/sand-dunes-at-sunset-atlantic-city-by-henry-ossawa-tanner

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Copley Fielding
(1787 - 1855)
 
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, and famous for his watercolour landscapes. At an early age Fielding became a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Old Water-colour Society, in 1813 a full member and in 1831 President of that body (later known as the Royal Society of Watercolours), until his death. He won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 alongside Richard Parkes Bonington and John Constable. He also engaged largely in teaching the art and made ample profits. He later moved to Park Crescent in Worthing and died in the town in March 1855. 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copley_Fielding
 

Sunset, Hastings
C. 1840
Watercolour
37 x 27 cm
Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/43690?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c

 

Friday, May 29, 2026

 Winslow Homer
(1836 - 1910)

Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general. 

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



East Hampton Beach, Long Island
1874
Oil on canvas
25.8 × 55.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, 
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/157923-east-hampton-beach-long-island

Thursday, May 28, 2026

William Merritt Chase
(1849 - 1916)
 

William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later became the Parsons School of Design.

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

Idle Hours
1894
Oil on canvas
90 x 64 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/idle-hours-19821

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

William Henry Margetson
(1861 - 1940)
 

William Henry Margetson RI was a British painter and illustrator, mainly known for his aesthetic portraits of women.

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

The sea hath its pearls
1897
Oil on canvas 
132 cm diam.
Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/705/

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Thomas Roberts 
(1856 - 1931)
 
Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. 

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


Holiday sketch at Coogee
1888
Oil on canvas
40 × 55.9 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/9078/

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