John Singleton Copley
(1738 - 1815)
John Singleton Copley was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealthy in colonial New England, he moved to London in 1774, never returning to America. In London, he met considerable success as a portraitist for the next two decades, and also painted a number of large history paintings, which were innovative in their readiness to depict modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt.
In June 1774, when he was already thirty-five years old, Copley decided that he must go to Europe. Although he intended to stay abroad just long enough to acquire artistic sophistication, the American Revolution changed his plans. Studying in Rome and stopping in many continental cities, Copley arrived in London in October 1775. There he was joined by his wife, children, and father-in-law, Richard Clarke, one of the Tory merchants whose investments had been dumped overboard at the Boston Tea Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singleton_Copley
The Copley Family
1776/1777
Oil on canvas
184 x 229 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46098.html
In I777 at the Royal Academy, Copley exhibited The Copley Family, which records his delight at being reunited with his family. The artist portrayed himself turning away from a sheaf of his sketches to look at the spectator. His wife, Susanna, leans forward to hug their four-year-old son, John Junior. Mary, who was a year younger than her brother, lies on the sofa, while Betsy, aged six and the eldest of the children, stands with a serious aplomb indicative of her seniority. The baby, Susanna, tries to attract her grandfather's attention with a rattle. The background is fanciful; no carpeted room ever merged so ambiguously into a forest glen. Copley's contemporaries would have understood the idyllic landscape as a reference to the family's natural simplicity and the elaborate furnishings as an indication of their civilized propriety.
Johann Eleazar Zeissig
(1737 – 1806)
Johann Eleazar Zeissig, also known as Schenau was a German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver; director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_von_Klever
The Elector's family
1772
Oil on canvas
121 x 116 cm
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/405207
Left to right: Karl of Saxony (1752-1781), Maria Amalia Augusta of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1752-1828), Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750-1827), Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria (1724-1780), Therese Maria Anna of Saxony (1761-1820), Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757–1831), Maximilian, Crown Prince of Saxony (1759-1838), Anthony of Saxony (1755-1836) and Prince regent Franz Xavier of Saxony (1730-1806).
François Gérard
(1770 - 1837)
François Pascal Simon Gérard titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was Italian. After he was made a baron of the Empire in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon, he was known formally as Baron Gérard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Gérard
Caroline, reine de Naples et ses enfants
1810 - 1811
Oil on canvas
217,5 x 170,5 cm
Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Bonaparte
Cornelis de Vos
(1584 - 1651)
Cornelis de Vos was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and art dealer. He was one of the leading portrait painters in Antwerp and is best known for his sensitive portraits, in particular of children and families. He was also successful in other genres including history, religious and genre painting. He was a regular collaborator with Rubens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_de_Vos
Family portrait
(1631)
Oil on panel
165 x 135 cm
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/portrait-family-2
William Dobson
(1611 – 1646)
William Dobson was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred". He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dobson
Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfeild
Circa 1645
oil on canvas
106 x 124 cm
Yale centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5027
Gillis van Tilborgh
(c. 1625 – c. 1678)
Gillis van Tilborgh or Gillis van Tilborchwas a Flemish painter who worked in various genres including portraits, 'low-life' and elegant genre paintings and paintings of picture galleries. He became the keeper of the picture collection of the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and travelled in England where he painted group portraits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillis_van_Tilborgh
Family portrait
1665
Oil on canvas
80,3 x 104 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/ontdek-collectie/kunstwerken/262-familieportret/
Charles Le Brun
(1619 - 1690)
Charles Le Brun was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Le_Brun
Everhard Jabach 1618-1695 and his family, ca. 1660.
1660
Oil on canvas
280 × 328 cm
The Met
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/626692
This painting combines the domestic intimacy and descriptive richness of Dutch and Flemish art, which Jabach collected and admired, with the measured formal organization and allegorical allusions characteristic of French portraiture. Everhard Jabach (1618–1695), dressed in black, is seated in the company of his wife and their four children. Although Le Brun presents an arresting portrayal of each sitter, much of the composition is given over to Jabach and the emblems of his cultural interests and, through the artist’s reflection seen as a self-portrait in the mirror, his association with France’s leading painter.
Detail
Jan Steen
(1626 - 1679)
Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century. His works are known for their psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Steen
The Merry Family
1668
Oil on canvas
110,5 x 141 cm
Rijksmuseum
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-C-229
‘As the old sing, so shall the young twitter.’
Théo van Rysselberghe
(1862 - 1926)
Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 13 December 1926) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théo_van_Rysselberghe
"Madame van de Velde et ses trois filles" (Madame van de Velde and her three daughters)
1903
Oil on canvas
105 x 125,5 cm.
Geneva, Musée du Petit Palais.
Paul Gustav Fischer
(1860 - 1934)
Paul Gustav Fischer was a Danish painter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gustav_Fischer
The artist's family
1912
Oil on canvas
54 x 72 cm
Private collection (Sold at Bruun Rasmussen Auctions on December 8, 2004 for DKK 210,000)
The painting portrays Fischer's brother Erik (1864-1946) with his wife Anna (born 1870) and their children Albert and Astrid. The interior is from Anna and Erik's home in Rigensgade. The lot also consisted of two more portraits, actually the two large oval paintings hanging on the wall, depicting Anna's parents, portrayed by Fischer in 1907.
John Singer Sargent
(1856 - 1925)
John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent
Sir George Sitwell, Lady Ida Sitwell and Family
Circa 1900
Oil on canvas
Private collection
https://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Sitwell_Family.htm
Alfred Dedreux
(1810 - 1860)
Pierre-Alfred Dedreux, who signed his works as Alfred de Dreux was a French portrait and animal painter, best known for his scenes with horses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_de_Dreux
Portrait of Mr and Mrs Mosselman and their two daughters
1848
Oil on canvas
200 x 265 cm
Petit palais, Paris
https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/oeuvre/portrait-mr-and-mrs-mosselman-and-their-two-daughters
Edgar Degas
(1834 - 1917)
Edgar Degas (born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist, and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas
The Bellelli Family
Between 1858 and 1869
Oil on canvas
201 x 249,5 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/portrait-de-famille-9998
Between the ages of 22 and 26, Edgar Degas completed his training in Italy, where part of his familly lived. Here he painted his father's sister, Laure, with her husband, the baron Bellelli (1812-1864) and her two daughters, Giula and Giovanna.
The baron was an Italian patriot, banned from Naples, who lived an exile in Florence. His wife is in mourning for her father, Hilaire, who died recently and whose portrait appears on the framed redline painting close to his daughter's face.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."
He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir
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Henriot Family (La Famille Henriot),
c. 1875
Oil on canvas
115,6 x 164,1 cm
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/6940/Henriot-Family-(La-Famille-Henriot)/
Frederick George Cotman
(1850 - 1920)
Frederick George Cotman was an English painter of landscapes, portraits and interiors and a member of the Norwich School of painters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_George_Cotman
One of the Family
1880
Oil on canvas
102 x 170 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/one-of-family
From the royalty of yesterday to the other end of the social spectrum:
Mihály Munkácsy
(1844 -1900)
Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihály_Munkácsy
Gypsy family
19th century
Oil on canvas
115 x 145 cm
Private collection
1984 to 1992 as a loan from a private collection in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
(1805 -1873)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Winterhalter
Family of Queen Victoria
1846
Oil on canvas
250,5 x 317,3 cm
The Royal Collection of the British royal family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection
Francisco de Goya
(1746 - 1828)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya
Charles IV of Spain and His Family
Between 1800 an 1801
Oil on canvas
280 x 336 cm
Museo del Prado
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-family-of-carlos-iv/f47898fc-aa1c-48f6-a779-71759e417e74?searchid=d77457de-bbd4-d0ee-6b98-152fd88b8c57
Pieter de Hooch
(1629 - 1684)
Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, with whom his work shares themes and style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_de_Hooch
Portrait of a family making music
1663
Oil on canvas
100 x 119 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
I’m not familiar with the original but on the website of the museum the painting is much darker.
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1951.355
Jacob Jordaens
(1593 -1678)
Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. Unlike those contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Jordaens
Bernardino Licinio
(1489 - 1565)
Bernardino Licinio was an Italian High Renaissance painter of Venice and Lombardy. He mainly painted portraits and religious canvases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_Licinio
Andries van Bochoven
(1609-1634)
Andries van Bochoven was a Dutch painter, born in Utrecht who died at the very young age of 25 probably due to the plague.
Only a wiki page in Spanish:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Bochoven
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577-1640)
Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens
Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder
Between 1613 an 1615
Oil on panel
125,1 x 95,2 cm
The Courtauld Institute of Art
https://courtauld.ac.uk/highlights/the-family-of-jan-brueghel-the-elder/
This painting celebrates family and friendship. It is a touching portrait of the family of the artist Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) by his close friend and collaborator Peter Paul Rubens. The two artists often worked together on paintings. When collaborating, Brueghel was typically responsible for still-life elements and landscapes, while Rubens contributed the figures.
Joaquin Sorolla
(1863 - 1923)
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water.<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquín_Sorolla
Mother
1895
Oil on canvas
125 x 169 cm
Museo Sorolla, Madrid
<i>This painting from 1895-1900 is the brilliant standout in Joaquín Sorolla’s career. It shows his wife and muse Clotilde and their newly born daughter Elena. </i>
Lavinia Fontana
(1552 - 1614)
Lavinia Fontana was a Bolognese Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. She was trained by her father Prospero Fontana who was a teacher at the School of Bologna. She is regarded as the first female career artist in Western Europe as she relied on commissions for her income. Her family relied on her career as a painter, and her husband served as her agent and raised their 11 children. She was perhaps the first woman artist to paint female nudes, but this is a topic of controversy among art historians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_Fontana
Bianca degli Utili Maselli, holding a dog and surrounded by six of her children
Before 1614
Oil on canvas
99 x 133,5 cm
Private collection
Sold by Sotheby’s in 2012 for 602,500 USD
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/important-old-master-paintings-n08825/lot.48.html
Detail.
The only daughter in the painting and also the only one with a name over her head.
Mary Cassatt
(1844-1926)
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cassatt
Breakfast in Bed
1897
Oil on canvas
58,4 x 73,7 cm
Huntington Library
https://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/5291/breakfast-in-bed#
James Tissot
(1836 - 1902)
Jacques Joseph Tissot Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and figures from the Bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tissot
The Return of the Prodigal Son
1862
Oil on canvas
115 x 206 cm
Petit Palais, Paris
https://collections.dma.org/artwork/4171219
For the Return of the Prodigal Son, Tissot took inspiration from the Flemish masters and Nordic architecture. The rich clothing of the figures assembled in the courtyard are reminiscent of the art of Hans Holbein (1497-1544) in The Ambassadors, (1533, London, National Gallery). The buildings in the background of the composition are characteristic of the Flemish architecture of the late Middle Ages, a model which was mainly spread by the neo-Gothic fashion.
The beginning of the story:
I want to start this month with an artist from my hometown Antwerp. Researching this month’s theme I noticed that the first painting was exhibited in Lier, a small medieval town not far from Antwerp and the town where I was born.
So I planned a trip there to look at the painting. But upon arrival at the museum there I was told that this particular painting was on loan for an exhibition in … Antwerp!
Frans Floris
(1519 - 1570)
Frans Floris, Frans Floris the Elder or Frans Floris de Vriendt was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, print artist and tapestry designer. He is mainly known for his history paintings, allegorical scenes and portraits. He played an important role in the movement in Northern Renaissance painting referred to as Romanism. The Romanists had typically travelled to Italy to study the works of leading Italian High Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and their followers. Their art assimilated these Italian influences into the Northern painting tradition.
Floris painted some family portraits. An example is the Family portrait in the Museum Wuyts-Van Campen en Baron Caroly, Lier, which is dated 1561. It was traditionally believed to depict the Berchem family, a prominent family. However, this is no longer accepted unanimously. The painting has two inscriptions, one in the painting itself, the other on its original frame. The first inscription appears on a portrait hanging on the wall behind the figures. It states that the man depicted in the portrait died on 10 January 1559, aged 58 years. The second is the Latin text written at the top and bottom of the frame of the painting. It translates as follows: "As in life there can be nothing happier than a marriage in unison and a bed without discord, there is nothing more pleasant than to see one's offspring in unison enjoy peace with an immaculate mind, 1561”. The painting thus simultaneously served as a memento of the deceased father and an expression of the feelings of togetherness of his descendants. Floris depicts all the members of the family performing and attending a concert of music, which emphasized this notion of 'concordia', i.e. the harmony within the family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Floris
Family portrait
1561
Oil on Oak Wood
130 x 225 cm
Stedelijk Museum Lier
https://www.stadsmuseumlier.be/
Until the end of June 2022 on view in :
https://www.snijdersrockoxhuis.be/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockox_House
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