Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Charles-Théodore Frère
(1814–1888)
 

Charles-Théodore Frère was a French Orientalist painter. His younger brother, Pierre-Édouard, and his nephew and namesake, Charles Edouard Frère, were also painters.

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


Sunset on the Nile
1877
Oil on canvas
111 x 181 cm
Private collection, sold by Sotheby’s on 29 March 2022
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/the-orientalist-sale-3/sunset-on-the-nile

Monday, December 30, 2024

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

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


A view of the tomb of the Caliphs with the pyramids of Giza beyond, Cairo
Date unknown
Oil on canvas
36,5 x 71 cm
Private collection. Sold by Sotheby’s, London, on 30 May 2008.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/european-paintings-including-german-austrian-central-european-paintings-and-the-orientalist-sale-l08101/lot.88.html

Sunday, December 29, 2024

 Also for the month of November I had a lot of leftovers...

David Roberts
(1796- 1864)

David Roberts RA RBA  was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roberts_(painter)

Egypt and Nubia, Volume III: Approach of the Simoon-Desert at Gizeh
color lithograph
43.6 x 60.4 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art (among others)
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.263

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Carl Spitzweg
(1808 - 1885)
 
Carl Spitzweg was a German romantic painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.

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


The Everlasting Bridegroom
ca. 1858-1860
Oil on canvas
48,2 x 28 cm.
Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, United States
https://www.msoe.edu/grohmann-museum/

Friday, December 27, 2024

Nearing the end of the year but still some leftovers to post. In October the theme was windows…

Evelyn De Morgan
(1855 - 1919)
 
Evelyn De Morgan was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism. Her paintings are figural, foregrounding the female body through the use of spiritual, mythological, and allegorical themes. They rely on a range of metaphors (such as light and darkness, transformation, and bondage) to express what several scholars have identified as spiritualist and feminist content. Her later works also dealt with the themes of war from a pacifist perspective, engaging with conflicts such as the Second Boer War and World War I.

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


The Love Potion
1903
Oil on canvas
104 x 52 cm
De Morgan Centre, London
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-love-potion-274573

Thursday, December 26, 2024

 Jacob Maris
(1837 - 1899)
 
Jacob Henricus 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
 

Towpath
c. 1896
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 51.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Towpath--d8be642920abc792087a5a95cb0d045c?tab=data

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Johann Hermann Carmiencke
(1810 - 1867)

Johann Hermann Carmiencke or John Hermann Carmiencke was a landscape painter and etcher.

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

Skovlandskab ved Hellebæk. Efterår (Forest landscape at Hellebæk. Autumn)
1841
Oil on canvas
115 x 174 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, København, Denmark
https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS398

 Henry Raeburn (4 March - 8July 1823)    Sir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV ...