Tuesday, March 14, 2023

 James McIntosh Patrick
(1907 - 1998)

James McIntosh Patrick, OBE RSA was a Scottish painter, celebrated for his finely observed paintings of the Angus landscape and Dundee, Scotland, where he was based for most of his life.


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


The Bridge, Den of Fowlis
1957
Oil on canvas
63,3 x 57,7 cm
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bridge-den-of-fowlis-angus-85611

Monday, March 13, 2023

Hubert Robert
(1733 - 1808)

Hubert Robert was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.

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

The Pont du Gard
1787
Oil on canvas
240 x 240 cm
Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062545

Stretching the theme a bit today because this not in fact a bridge but an aqueduct or watercourse.
It brings back memories from 40 years ago when I went hiking with a friend in the south of France. It looked very much the same then as in this painting only not so many people about…

Sunday, March 12, 2023

 Theodore Robinson
(1852 - 1896)
 
Theodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his Impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up Impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of American Impressionism.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Robinson


The Old Bridge
1890
Oil on Canvas
63,5 x 81 cm.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/robinson-theodore/old-bridge


Saturday, March 11, 2023

Jacob Maris
(1837 - 1899)
 
Jacob Hendricus Maris ( was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters. He was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His first teacher was painter J.A.B. Stroebel who taught him the art of painting from 1849 to 1852. Jacob Maris's most known works are the series of portraits of the royal House of Orange, he worked on these with his brother Matthijs Maris. He is also known for landscapes such as Ship on the Scheveningen beach.

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



The Bridge
Ca. 1879
Oil on canvas
42 x 73,5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-2988

Friday, March 10, 2023

Everhardus Koster
(1817 - 1892)
 
Everhardus Koster was a Dutch painter who specialized in sea and river scenes. For many years, he served as Director of the various museums that were formerly housed in the Villa Welgelegen.

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


Ruins Over the River Birchel at Zutphen
Between 1840 and 1855
Oil on canvas
35.9 x 61.7 cm
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/NIRP/id/28172/

Thursday, March 9, 2023

 Edvard Munch
(1863 - 1944)
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images.

Munch arrived in Paris during the festivities of the Exposition Universelle (1889) and roomed with two fellow Norwegian artists. His picture Morning (1884) was displayed at the Norwegian pavilion. He spent his mornings at Bonnat's busy studio (which included female models) and afternoons at the exhibition, galleries, and museums (where students were expected to make copies as a way of learning technique and observation). Munch recorded little enthusiasm for Bonnat's drawing lessons—"It tires and bores me—it's numbing"—but enjoyed the master's commentary during museum trips.


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


The Seine at Saint-Cloud
1890
Oil on wooden panel
19 x 33 cm
Private collection

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Vanessa Bell
(1879 - 1961)

Vanessa Bell was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf .
Bell was portrayed by Janet McTeer in the Dora Carrington biopic Carrington (1995), and by Miranda Richardson in the film The Hours (2002).
Bell is the subject of the Susan Sellers novel Vanessa and Virginia (2010) and of the Priya Parmar novel Vanessa and Her Sister (2014). She was portrayed by Phoebe Fox and Eve Best in the BBC mini-series Life in Squares (2015).
Bell was portrayed by Emerald Fennell in the film Vita and Virginia (2018).


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



On the Seine
c. 1921
Oil on canvas
27 x 46 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

 J. M. W. Turner (1775 - 1851)   Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, pri...