Saturday, November 22, 2025

Hans Toma
(1839- 1924)
 
Hans Thoma was a German painter. 

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




Wondrous Birds
1892
Oil on cardboard
92 x 74 cm
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.
https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artwork/wondrous-birds/

Friday, November 21, 2025

Christoffel Puytlinck
(1640 - 1679)
 

Christoffel Puytlinck, was a painter from Roermond (present-day Netherlands). He painted still lifes, chiefly game pieces and live and dead fowl. 

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


Hoenderhof (poultry yard)
1655-1682
Oil on panel
42 x 58 cm.
Museum Bredius, The Hague, Netherlands
https://museumbredius.nl/en/collection/hoenderhof/


<i>The poultry is placed in an Italian environment (Puytlinck made a trip to Rome). The sculpturing of the marbles is of a mock-antique character.</I>

Thursday, November 20, 2025

George Stubbs
(1724-1806)
 

George Stubbs ARA was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals (such as horses, dogs and lions), perhaps influenced by his love and study of anatomy. His series of paintings on the theme of a lion attacking a horse are early and significant examples of the Romantic movement that emerged in the late 18th century. He enjoyed royal patronage. His painting Whistlejacket hangs in the National Gallery, London. 

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

Greenland Falcon
1780
beeswax on panel
81.3 x 99.1 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21168

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

 John Constable
(1776 - 1837)
 

John Constable RA was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".


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

Wivenhoe Park
1816
Oil on canvas
6.1 × 101.2  cm.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1147-wivenhoe-park-essex

 

The painting was commissioned by the owner of Wivenhoe Park, Major General Francis Slater Rebow, who was among the artist's first patrons, being a close friend of the artist's father, Golding Constable. Wivenhoe Park is 200 acres (81 ha) of parkland, purchased by the Rebow family before 1734. Slater-Rebow commissioned several paintings from Constable, including a portrait of the general's seven-year-old daughter in 1812. She also figures in this painting, in a donkey cart to the left. This painting, finished in September 1816, earned the artist enough money to allow him to marry his long-time love, Mary Bicknell. They married in October 1816.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wivenhoe_Park_(painting)

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Japs Antido
B. 1982

John Paul Antido or also known as JAPS is a Filipino artist who took up bachelor's in Fine Arts and majored in Painting from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He was born in Antipolo City and is still a resident enjoying the cold weather and mountainous scenery of his childhood home.
Japs' works have been shown to audiences in Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, and Denmark. He is known for mixing traditional subjects with a modern style in his works. While having a festive scenery, he shows intricate traditional garments and the native flair of Filipinos combined with modern elements. Japs uses the impasto technique of laying thick paint with textured brushstrokes and with the use of bright and lively colors to depict how Filipinos celebrate occasions.


https://www.instagram.com/japsantido/

Of Birds and Nests
2015
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 91.4 cm
Center for Art, New Ventures & Sustainable Development (CANVAS), Quezon City, Philippines

Monday, November 17, 2025

 Rita Angus
(1908 - 1970) 
 

Henrietta Catherine Angus known as Rita Cook early in her career, was a New Zealand painter who, alongside Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston, is regarded as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century New Zealand art. She worked primarily in oil and watercolour, and became known for her portraits and landscapes.

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

Flight
1969
Oil on hardboard
60.7 × 60.2 cm
Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/43394?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c

 

In the early 1960s, Rita Angus was horrified to hear that thousands of graves would be shifted from Wellington’s Bolton Street Cemetery to make way for a new urban motorway. Angus was keenly aware of her Anglo-Scottish heritage and New Zealand’s 19th-century history, and saw both reflected in the colonial cemetery.
Angus visited the site regularly before and during the demolition, making careful records of specific headstones and inscriptions. A lifelong pacifist, she was drawn to a carved stone dove among the piled-up headstones at the demolition site. Angus sketched the dove in pencil, before including it in this work - her last completed painting.

Sunday, November 16, 2025

John William Waterhouse
(1849 - 1917)
 

John William Waterhouse RA was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His paintings are known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend. A high proportion depict a single young and beautiful woman in a historical costume and setting, though there are some ventures into Orientalist painting and genre painting, still mostly featuring women. 

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


Ulysses and the Sirens
1891
Oil on canvas
100.6 x 202 cm 
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/4457/

Saturday, November 15, 2025

 Martin Johnson Heade
(1819 - 1904)
 
Martin Johnson was an American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, and depictions of hummingbirds, often depicted with orchids, as well as lotus blossoms and other still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, are regarded by art historians as a significant departure from those of his peers.

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



Two Hummingbirds Above a White Orchid
c. 1875 - 1890
Oil on canvas
25.7 x 46 cm 
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, United States
https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/two-hummingbirds-above-white-orchid-198133

Friday, November 14, 2025

 Sargent Claude Johnson
(1888 - 1967)

Sargent Claude Johnson was one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation. He was known for Abstract Figurative and Early Modern styles. He was a painter, potter, ceramicist, printmaker, graphic artist, sculptor, and carver. He worked in a variety of media, including ceramics, clay, stone, wood, terra cotta, tiled murals, watercolor, oil on canvas, porcelain enamel on steel, and lithography. Despite having lived in San Francisco for most of his adult life, Johnson is considered one of the stellar artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

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

Cubist Bird
1966
Enamel on steel
1000 x 772cm
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, United States
https://www.scadmoa.org/

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Štefan Prohászka-Tallós
(1896 - 1974)

Štefan Prohászka-Tallós was a Hungarian artist who often exhibited in Bratislava. He was known for expressive, almost grotesque depictions of public events, markets and feasts, sometimes commenting on the Slovak-Hungarian social tensions. This is one of his more peaceful and nature-oriented works.

https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallós_Prohászka_István


Isle of Cormorants
1930-1935
Oil on canvas
180 x 155 cm
Slovak National Gallery, Slovakia 
https://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK:SNG.O_2236 

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Cheryl Medow
 

Santa Barbara photographic artist Cheryl Medow creates images that entice the viewer to enter the natural world and envision her wild birds, in imaginary and real environments.   Medow layers her photographs, weaving them together to create visual narratives.

https://www.cherylmedow.com/abouttheartist


Tri-Colored Heron And A Skimmer
2017
Photograph
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/photonola-currents-2017/cheryl-medow-tri-colored-heron-and-a-skimmer-2017-courtesy-of-the-artist-and-pdnb-gallery-in-dallas-texas/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBVgC1pHHvN/
https://www.pdnbgallery.com/cherylmedow

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

 Sydney Long
(1871–1955 )
 

Sydney Long was an Australian artist. Originally inspired by the Heidelberg School of Australian impressionism, Long developed his own Symbolist approach to the Australian landscape, and by the 1910s had become Australia's foremost Art Nouveau painter. 

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

The Spirit of the Plains 
1914
Oil on canvas
76.8 x 153.7 cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object/82425

Sunday, November 9, 2025

George Edwards
(1694–1773)
 

George Edwards FRS was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".

Over a period of 21 years, Edwards published seven volumes containing descriptions and hand-coloured etchings of birds. In a few cases, he depicted other animals. None of the species were native to the British Isles. The first four volumes were published between 1743 and 1751 with the title A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. The three subsequent volumes were published between 1758 and 1764 with the title Gleanings Of Natural History. The volumes contain a total of 362 hand-coloured etchings of which 317 depict birds. The etchings were all drawn by Edwards. He numbered the plates consecutively through the seven volumes.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edwards_(naturalist)

Bird Study: Bohemian Waxwing
c. 1714–73
watercolor with gouache
28.3 x 20.6 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland USA
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.230

Akseli Gallen-Kallela
 (1865–1931)
 

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (born Axel Waldemar Gallén) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He finnicized his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akseli_Gallen-Kallela


Great Black Woodpecker
1893
Gouache on paper
90 x 145 cm
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Manuel Ocaranza
(1841 - 1882)
 
Manuel Egidio Ocaranza  was a Mexican painter, related to Costumbrismo. Considered one of the first modern artists in Mexico in the 19th century. Part of his work is exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Mexico City. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rowlandson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costumbrismo

 

The love of the Humming Bird
1869
Oil on canvas
100 × 145 cm
Museo Nacional de Arte, Ciudad de México, Mexico

Friday, November 7, 2025

Jean Clouet
(1480–1549)
 
Jean (or Janet or Jehannot) Clouet was a painter, draughtsman and miniaturist from the Burgundian Netherlands whose known active work period took place in France. He was court painter to French king Francis I. Together with his son François Clouet he is counted among the leading 16th century portrait painters working in France. They are particularly known for their accomplished drawings, using black chalk and pure red chalk.

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



Portrait of Marguerite of Navarre
c. 1527
oil on oak
62 × 52.5 cm
National Museums Liverpool, UK

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Marmaduke Cradock
(1660–1716)

Marmaduke Cradock was an English painter of birds and other animals. Some older sources give his first name as Luke but this may be in error. Self taught, he produced art works that were rarely signed.

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

Mallards on a Pond
Before 1716
oil on canvas
45 × 55 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore/explore-the-collection/mallards-on-a-pond/

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Watanabe Shōtei
(1851– 1918)
 
Watanabe Seitei (渡辺 省亭), also known as Watanabe Shōtei, was a Japanese Nihonga painter who was one of the first Japanese painters to visit Europe, attending the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris and being awarded a medal. He blended Western realism with the delicate colours and washes of the Kikuchi Yōsai school, introducing a new approach to kachōga (bird-and-flower painting). 

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


Bird on a branch
1916
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, United States

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Frederick Stuart Church
(1842 - 1924)
 
Frederick Stuart Church was an American artist, working mainly as an illustrator and especially known for his (often allegorical) depiction of animals.
He became especially known for his fondness of depicting animals, both in their natural state and in anthropomorphic "allegorical compositions" - having both the patience and empathy needed to gain the confidence of his animal "models" and a through understanding of animal anatomy, as well as of animal facial expressions and the moods and feelings they conveyed. 


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



Tiger and Bird
1892
etching with plate tone
IMA art Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, United States
https://collections.discovernewfields.org/art/artwork/75158

Monday, November 3, 2025

Carel Fabritius
(1610 - 1696)
 
Carel Pietersz. Fabritius (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaːrəl ˈpitərs faːˈbritsijʏs]; bapt. 27 February 1622 – 12 October 1654) was a Dutch painter. He was a pupil of Rembrandt and worked in his studio in Amsterdam. Fabritius, who was a member of the Delft School, developed his own artistic style and experimented with perspective and lighting. Among his works are A View of Delft (1652; National Gallery, London), The Goldfinch (1654), and The Sentry (1654).

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



The Goldfinch
1654
Oil on panel
33,5 cm x 22,8 cm 
Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/ontdek-collectie/kunstwerken/605-het-puttertje
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goldfinch_(painting) 

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Henriette Browne
(1829 - 1901)

Henriette Browne was the pseudonym for Mme Jules de Saux, née Sophie Boutellier (1829-1901). She specialised in genre scenes, especially Near-Eastern and religious subjects, as well as portraits. She also worked as an engraver. She started exhibiting at the Salon in Paris in 1853 and exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, between 1871 and 1879. This painting is a fine example of Henriette Browne’s output as it combines a genre scene, a little girl distracted while doing her homework and a child portrait. The interest in everyday life and close observation of nature is characteristic of the French Realist movement emerged in the 1840s.

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

A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch
1874
Oil on canvas
74 × 92 cm
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Saturday, November 1, 2025

 Abraham Bloemaert
(1566 - 1651)
 

Abraham Bloemaert was a Dutch painter and printmaker who used etching and engraving. He initially worked in the style of the "Haarlem Mannerists", but by the beginning of the 17th-century altered his style in line with the new Baroque style that was then developing. He mostly painted history subjects and some landscapes. He was an important teacher, training most of the Utrecht Caravaggisti.

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


Old man with chicken
After 1620
Oil on oak panel
72 x 64 cm
Hermitage, St. Petersburg

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