Saturday, December 7, 2024

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
(1883 - 1937)
 
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell RSA was a Scottish Colourist painter, renowned for his depictions of the elegant New Town interiors of his native Edinburgh, and for his work on Iona.

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



The Green Bottle
mid 1920's
Oil on canvas
50 x 44.5 cm
National Galleries of Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/58286

Friday, December 6, 2024

Samuel John Peploe
(1871 - 1935)
 
Samuel John Peploe was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists. The other colourists were John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter.

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

Roses
Between 1920 - 1925
Oil on canvas
50.8 × 61 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, US
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/754

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Gustav Wertheimer
(1847 – 1902)

Gustav Wertheimer was an Austrian painter, active mainly in Paris. He produced history paintings, portraits, and genre scenes.

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

The Kiss of the Siren
1882
Oil on canvas
216 x 284.5 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
https://collections.discovernewfields.org/art/artwork/54276

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Some leftovers from last February...
 
Henri Léopold Lévy
(1840 - 1904)
 
Henri-Léopold Lévy was a French painter of Jewish ancestry, known primarily for mythological and Biblical subjects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Léopold_Lévy


The Death of Orpheus
C. 1870
Oil on canvas
46.5 x 55.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93782/the-death-of-orpheus

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Hermann David Salomon
(1844 - 1905)
 
Hermann David Salomon Corrodi was an Italian painter of landscapes and orientalist scenes.

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



Venice, at the gate of the island monastery of San Lazzaro
Date unknown
Oil on canvas
166 x 88 cm
Private collection (sold Palais Dorotheum , Vienna 23. 10. 2019)
https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/6408971/

Monday, December 2, 2024

Félix Ziem
(1821 - 1911)
 
Félix Ziem was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School, who also produced some Orientalist works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Ziem
 
Venise, la Giudecca au crépuscule
Between 1860 - 1890
Oil on canvas
73.5 x 111.5 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris (Musée du Petit Palais)
https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/226274

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Some leftovers from last January

William Wyld
(1806- 1889)

William Wyld was an English painter who participated at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. He was a friend of painters Ary Scheffer and Paul Delaroche.

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

 

The Grand Canal, Venice 
1863
Oil on canvas
53.5 x 86.3 cm
Private collection.
Sold at Christies’s on  20 June 2013
https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-william-wyld-ri-1806-1889-the-grand-5697133/?

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