Lucian Freud
(1922 - 2011)

 

Lucian Michael Freud OM CH was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in 1933, when he was 10 years old, to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British naturalized citizen in 1939. From 1942 to 1943 he attended Goldsmiths' College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War.

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

Double Portrait
1985-86
Oil on canvas

89 cm x 79 cm
Private Collection

John Frederick Kensett
(1816 - 1872)

John Frederick Kensett was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists. Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and are associated with Luminism. Kensett's early work owed much to the influence of Thomas Cole, but was from the outset distinguished by a preference for cooler colors and an interest in less dramatic topography, favoring restraint in both palette and composition. The work of Kensett's maturity features tranquil scenery depicted with a spare geometry, culminating in series of paintings in which coastal promontories are balanced against glass-smooth water. He was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

Bash-Bish Falls, Massachusetts
1855
Oil on canvas
75.88 x 61.28 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/33184/bashbish-falls-massachusetts

Jacob Philipp Hackert
(1737 - 1807)

Jacob Philipp Hacker was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy. 

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

The Maecenas Villa and Waterfalls in Tivoli
1783
Oil on canvas
121,5x169 cm
Hermitage Museum
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/38614

Louisa Davis Minot
(1787 - 1858)

Louisa Davis Minot was born 1787 in Portland, Cumberland, Massachusetts.

The life story of Louisa Davis Minot is one that is still shrouded in some form of mystery. For example, we still are unsure how Minot acquired her artistic training. What we do know is that the exquisite attention to detail in the Niagara Falls paintings suggest that they are not her first nor only works. Beyond the sheer artistic talent of the canvases themselves, Louisa Minot was impressive for taking on a subject that truly captured the realistic intensity of emotions of Niagara Falls.
Although the beginnings of the Hudson River School are usually traced back to the fall of 1825, when Durand, John Trumbull and others came across a Thomas Cole landscape in New York, signs indicate that there were others before Cole’s time. Seven years prior to Durand and company’s discovery, Louisa Davis Minot painted a pair of stunning Niagara Falls canvases. In fact, these two works of art were the only known paintings ascribed to her name.

http://staging.davesfiction.com/wam-featured-artist-week-louisa-davis-minot/
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davis-26573

Niagara Falls
Oil on linen
1818
76,2 × 103,2 cm
New-York Historical Society
https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/44071/niagara-falls

Paul Weber
(1823 - 1916)

Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber was a German artist. Weber is known for his ethereal and timeless landscape paintings of early northeast America. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1848 and though he returned to Germany around 1860 his influence on American landscape painting was still felt for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weber_(artist)

Angler an einem Wasserfall im Gebirge (angler at a waterfall in the mountains)
1887
Oil on canvas
43,5 × 36 cm
Private collection

 Edmund Marriner Gill
(1820 - 1894)

Edmund Marriner Gill was an English landscape painter favouring waterfalls. He was the son of portrait painter Edmund Ward Gill (1794–1854) and brother to painters William Ward Gill (1823–1894) and George Reynolds Gill (1827–1904).

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

The Waterfall
Oil on canvas
1795
108,2 × 78,7 cm
Kirklees Museums and Galleries, UK

 Thomas Moran
(1837 - 1926)
 

Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.

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

Children Of The Mountain
Oil on canvas
1866-1867
62 × 52 cm
American Museum of Western Art in Denver

 Johann Ludwig Aberli
(1723 - 1786)

Johann Ludwig Aberli was a Swiss painter and etcher.

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

Lauterbrunnental mit Staubbach
Oil on canvas
1758 - 1760
48 × 37,5 cm
Private Collection

 Christian August Lorentzen
(1830 - 1902)
 

Christian August Lorentzen was a Danish painter. He was born in Sønderborg, Denmark. He was the son of Hans Peter Lorentzen and Maria Christina Hansdatter. His father was a watchmaker. He arrived in Copenhagen around 1771 where he frequented the Royal Academy of Fine Arts but it is unclear whether he received formal training. After arriving in Copenhagen, he was soon used as a portrait painter. From 1779 to 1782 he went abroad to develop his skills, visiting the Netherlands, Antwerp and Paris where he copied old masters. In 1792 he traveled to Norway to paint prospects.

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

The Waterfall Sarpsfossen
Oil on canvas
1795
125,5 × 158 cm
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collection/object/NG.M.00079

Albert Bierstadt
(1830 - 1902)

Albert Bierstadt was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.

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

 

Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall
Oil on canvas
1864
86,9 × 68,8 cm
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
https://www.timkenmuseum.org/news/work-of-the-week-albert-bierstadt-cho-looke-the-yosemite-fall-1864/

Gustave Courbet

(1819 - 1877)

 

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.

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

Rocks near Ornans

Oil on canvas

67 × 85 cm

KMSKA, Antwerp

https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/rocks-near-ornans

Jan van Huysum
(1682 - 1749)
 

Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; “by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers.” Trained in decoration from a young age, he “gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish” creating “wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass.”

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

An Italianate river landscape with figures fishing by a waterfall, a town beyond.
1700s
Oil on canvas
53.5 64.8 cm
Private Collection (Sold by Christie’s in 2018)

 <b>John Singer Sargent</b>
(1856 - 1925)

<i>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, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. </I>

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

Yoho Falls
1916
Oil on canvas
94 x 113 cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

<i>In the summer of 1916, John Singer Sargent felt a need for a respite from working on his mural scheme for the Boston Public Library and made plans to travel to the Candadian Rockies. Isabella Stewart Gardner took an interest in his trip and promised to buy a picture of Yoho Falls should Sargent manage to paint one. Sargent camped in a remote area under the falls and wrote to Isabella, "It is magnificent when the sun shines, which it did for the first two days. & I began a picture——that is ten days ago——and since then it has been raining and snowing steadily——provisions and temper getting low——but I shall stick it out till the sun reappears..." Sargent did indeed stick it out and Isabella purchased the picture that fall. It now hangs in the Blue Room gallery of her museum.</I>

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/10871

James Burrell Smith
(1822 - 1879)

James Burrell Smith was a watercolour and landscape artist. He was born in London. In 1843 he moved to Alnwick, Northumberland where he trained with Thomas Miles Richardson. He travelled around the UK and Europe. In the 1880s he created some engravings for The Illustrated London News.

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

The Falls of Dulais,
c.1870
Oil on Canvas
98,5 x 68,5 cm
Neath Port Talbot Civic Centre

 Lucas van Uden
(1595 - 1672)

Lucas van Uden was a leading Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and engraver, who lived and worked in Antwerp. He was a leading landscape painter who collaborated with various local figure painters. His most original works are his drawings.

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

Alpine Landscape
First half of the 17th century
Oil on Oak wood
42 x 71 cm
Private Collection

Jacob van Ruisdael
(1629 - 1682)

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular.

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

Waterfall in the Foothills ("Norwegian Waterfall")
ca. 1670
Oil on Canvas
85,2 x 85,3 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt
https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/waterfall-in-the-foothills

William Trost Richards
(1833 - 1905)

William Trost Richards was an American landscape artist. He was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement.

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

The Rosenlaui Valley, Switzerland
1858
Oil on Canvas
104 x 81 cm
Private Collection

John Brandon Smith
(1848 - 1884)
 

John Brandon Smith was a British 19th Century painter who was born in 1848.

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/John-Brandon-Smith/5105180E52507485

Devil's Bridge Wales
circa 1875
Oil on Canvas
61 x 86,3
Private Collection

Hermann Ottomar Herzog
(1832 - 1932)
 

Hermann Ottomar Herzog was a prominent nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and American artist, primarily known for his landscapes. He is associated with the Düsseldorf School and Hudson River School of painting.

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

Niagara Falls from the Canadian Side
Oil on Canvas
61 x 86,3
Private Collection (Sold on October 28, 2021 for $50,000)

Victor de Grailly
(1804 - 1889)

French painter Victor de Grailly, working in a Hudson River School landscape style, is said to have lived in the United States from 1840 to 1870, but, according to Peter Falk, "no evidence has been found to confirm this statement".
Most of his paintings of American scenes were based on engravings he saw in France in William Henry Bartlett's book, American Scenery, London, 1840.  De Grailly studied in France with neo-classical landscape painter Victor Bertin, whose influence remained with De Grailly, although a more romantic feeling developed in his later work.

https://www.askart.com/artist/Victor_De_Grailly/83631/Victor_De_Grailly.aspx

Niagara Falls
ca. 1850
Oil on Canvas
43,2 x 59,7
Private Collection

 Elihu Vedder
(1836 - 1923)

Elihu Vedder was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).

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

The Water Nymph
1878
Oil on Canvas
86,4 x 53,2 cm
Private Collection

 Allaert van Everdingen
(1621 - 1675)
 

Allaert van Everdingen was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint.

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

Scandinavian Landscape
1647
Oil on Canvas
110 x 135 cm
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/45977

Camille Corot
(1796 - 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 Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

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

Waterfall at Terni
1826
Oil on paper, laid down on wood
26.7 x 30.8 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438635

 August Matthias Hagen
(1794 - 1794)

August Matthias Hagen was a Baltic German painter and graphic artist. He specialized in landscapes and cityscapes with figures.

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

Waterfall near Salzburg
Circa 1851
Oil on Canvas

 Frederic Edwin Church
(1826 - 1900)

Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.

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

Niagara
1857
Oil on Canvas
101 x 230 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Otto Frölicher
(1840 - 1890)

Otto Viktor Frölicher was a Swiss landscape painter. In 1859, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and became a student of landscape painting under Johann Gottfried Steffan. Four years later, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he came under the influence of Oswald Achenbach. After going home to Solothurn, he found that he was unable to earn a living as a painter there and returned to Munich and discovered a new influence, Adolf Heinrich Lier. In 1876, he travelled to Paris on the recommendation of Lier, but was not able to adapt to big city life and, a year later, returned to Munich which, at that time, had barely 200,000 people.

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

Schmadribach
c. 1881
Oil on canvas
111.5 x 92 cm
Kunstmuseum Solothurn
https://www.kunstmuseum-so.ch/de/museum/2-das-museum

 Alexandre Calame
(1810 - 1864)

Alexandre Calame was a Swiss landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf School.
He was born in Arabie at the time belonging to Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother.
In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art.

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

Cascade de la Handeck
1839
Oil on Canvas
130.0 x 98.5 cm
Collection Pictet
https://www.collection.pictet/artwork/cascade-de-la-handeck

 William Turner
(1775 - 1851)

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner

The Great Falls of the Reichenbach
1804
watercolour on paper
102.2 x W 68.9 cm
The Higgins Bedford
Castle Lane, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England

Katsushika Hokusai
(1760 - 1849)

Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎), known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works are thought to have had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme, that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.

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

Kirifuri Waterfall at Kurokami Mountain in Shimotsuke
around 1832
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
height: 37 cm width: 26 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56139

Joseph Vernet
(1714 - 1789)

 

Claude-Joseph Vernet was a French painter, born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753), a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work.

For twenty years Vernet lived in Rome, producing views of seaports, storms, calms, moonlights, and large whales, becoming especially popular with English aristocrats, many of whom were on the Grand Tour. In 1745, he married an Englishwoman whom he met in the city. In 1753, he was recalled to Paris: there, by royal command, he executed the series of the seaports of France (now in the Louvre and the Musée national de la Marine) by which he is best known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Joseph_Vernet

The Waterfalls at Tivoli, with the Villa of Maecenas
around 1740-1750
Oil on canvas
height: 101 cm width: 138 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/ontdek-collectie/kunstwerken/293-de-watervallen-bij-tivoli-met-de-villa-van-maecenas/