Saturday, November 30, 2024

N. de Garis Davies
(1881 - 1965)
 

The Egyptologists Nina M. Davies (6 January 1881 – 21 April 1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865–5 November 1941) were a married couple of illustrators and copyists who worked in the early and mid-twentieth century drawing and recording paintings in Egypt. Their work was often published together, as N. de Garis Davies, and so it is usually difficult to determine who drew which illustration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._de_Garis_Davies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakht

the tomb chapel of Nakht
ca. 1410–1370 B.C
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548438

Between 1907 and 1938, under the leadership of British Egyptologist Norman de Garis Davies, the Graphic Section of The Met’s Egyptian Expedition undertook a documentation project with the goal of recording ancient monuments as accurately as possible.

This facsimile painting copies the decoration painted on the left hand wall as one enters the tomb chapel of Nakht (Theban tomb no. 52), a scribe and astronomer who probably lived during the reign of Thutmose IV.


 

Friday, November 29, 2024

 Arthur von Ferraris
(1856- 1936)
 
Arthur von Ferraris was a Hungarian-born artist known for his portraits of society figures of his day and for his "orientalist" paintings.

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


Arriving at the Mosque
Oil on canvas
56 x 70 cm
Mathaf Gallery, London
( sold at Sotheby’s, October 22, 2019)
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/important-works-from-the-najd-collection/arthur-von-ferraris-arriving-at-the-mosque

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Willem de Famars Testas
(1834 - 1896)
 
Willem de Famars Testas was a 19th-century Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and illustrator noted for his Orientalist paintings and drawings.

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


Binnenplaats van een huis te Caïro
(The Courtyard of a house in Cairo)
1868 - 1881
Oil on canvas
84 x 62 cm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Binnenplaats-van-een-huis-te-Cairo--a38477aa93fbb93e6246f7be9889cdab

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

John Frederick Lewis
(1804 - 1876)
 
John Frederick Lewis RA was an English Orientalist painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes in detailed watercolour or oils, very often repeating the same composition in a version in each medium. He lived for several years in a traditional mansion in Cairo, and after his return to England in 1851 he specialized in highly detailed works showing both realistic genre scenes of Middle Eastern life and more idealized scenes in upper-class Egyptian interiors with little apparent Western influence. 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Lewis
 

On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt
1876
Oil on canvas
62.2 x 74.3 cm
Yale Center for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:902

 

Edward Lear
(1812 - 1888)
 
Edward Lear was an English writer and illustrator who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.
His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books) and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.


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


Philae, Egypt
1863
Oil on canvas
27.5 x 53.3 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:173

Monday, November 25, 2024

Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann
(1819 - 1881)
 
Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann  was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Jerichau-Baumann


An Egyptian Fellah Woman with her Baby
1872
Oil on canvas
129.2 x 98.5 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, København, Denmark

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Jules Joseph Lefebvre
(1836 - 1911)
 
Jules Joseph Lefebvre was a French painter, educator and theorist. 

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

Servant
Late 19th Century
Oil on canvas
82.5 x 128 cm
Pera Museum: Orientalist Paintings Collection, Istanbul, Türkiye

 Rembrandt  (1606 - 1669)   Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and...