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Aug 27 2010
Stonehenge by John Constable of 1836
British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 days ago - troycapc
This masterpiece by John Constable was created in 1836. It depicts a scene of Stonehenge as it appeared in the first third of the nineteenth century. John Constable was one of the greatest of the early British Romantic artists. During much of his life his work was more popular in France than in England and he was never financially successful. He finally obtained recognition in 1828 when he was elected to the Royal Academy. This masterpiece is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Constable died the year after he painted "Stonehenge".
Aug 23 2010
1843 Republic of Texas by John Arrowsmith, London
American / British / Maps and charts - 12 days ago - troycapc
Map of the Republic completed for the General Land Office of the Republic by John Arrowsmith, Soho Square, London, in 1843. John Arrowsmith was one of the foremost cartographers in London from 1839 to his death in 1873. The map was completed during the second term of Sam Houston as president of the republic during a period in which the infant republic was negotiating for recognition from the United Kingdom. This was due to on-going difficulties in having Texas annexed by the United States as Houston had favored.
Aug 17 2010
Map of Scotland of 1573 by Abraham Ortellius
British / Maps and charts / Renaissance - 3 weeks ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of the best map of Scotland up to the middle of the sixteenth century. When this map was created by Abraham Ortellius in Antwerp, Mary Queen of Scots was in an English prison and her young son James VI was seven years old. This "Table of Scotland" was part of the atlas series produced by Ortellius, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, “Theatre of the Orb of the Earth(s)”. The original map is 18.3 inches wide and 13.6 inches high.
Aug 16 2010
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite / Waterhouse - 3 weeks ago - troycapc
A reproduction of "Echo and Narcissus" of 1903 by John William Waterhouse. This work reflects and captures a moment from Greek and Roman Mythology and is another story in which a young man’s rejection of love leads to his destruction. His rejection of the attetnions of the nymph Echo that she faded away until only the whisper of her voice remained. Nemesis heard the prayers of the rejected ladies and arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with his own image .
Waterhouse often re-created scenes from the world of myth as did many of his fellow Pre-Raphaelites. Waterhouse was born to English painters in Rome who returned to England when he was five years old. He entered the Royal Academy of Art school in 1871 when he was aged 21 and within three years he had a successful painting. For the next forty years Waterhouse maintained his success and continued painting until his last illness made productin impossible in 1915. He died two years later. This masterpiece is presently in the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.
Aug 13 2010
The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1901
British / Inspirational prints / Leighton / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 3 weeks ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “The Accolade” of 1901 by Edmund Blair Leighton. This work captures an idealized moment in the ceremony of the creation of a knight in the Middle Ages. The original work is in a Private Collection.
Edmund Leighton was the son of the artist Charles B. Leighton and he exhibited annually at the Royal Academy from 1878 when he was aged thirty-two. Many of his works are based in romantic depictions of knighthood and the medieval ideals of chivalry. He is numbered among the late Pre-Raphaelistes and died in 1922.
Aug 7 2010
Neptune’s Horses by Walter Crane of 1892
British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 4 weeks ago - troycapc
Neptune’s Horses was painted in 1892 by Walter Crane, at the height of the Symbolist Movement. Crane faithfully captures the god of the sea roaring onto the coast with his horses which are enmeshed in the waves that they mythologically create and interpenetrate.
Aug 1 2010
Jacob’s Ladder, William Blake, ca. 1800
British / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 5 weeks ago - troycapc
A reproduction of William Blake’s work “Jacob’s Ladder”. This work is a depiction of the story from the sixteenth chapter of Genesis. The tale has traditionally been viewed as an allegory of the connection between the immortal and the mortal. This masterwork is in the British Museum.
Jul 30 2010
God As Architect, William Blake, 1794
British / Paintings (Reproductions) - 5 weeks ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of William Blake was created in 1794, as an illustration of his book of poetry, Europa a Prophecy. However, this work is more popularly known as the Ancient of Days. This pre-Romantic etching depicts a very Newtonian God measuring out the dimensions of his creation.
Jul 26 2010
Venus Verticordia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti of ca. 1866
British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 6 weeks ago - troycapc
A reproduction of a work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Venus Verticordia”. This Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece of about 1866 is haunting and seductive. The artist composed a poem for the work which is quoted below. It is now displayed in the Rossetti Cotes Art Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth, England.
Jul 18 2010
Death on a Pale Horse by Benjamin West of 1796
American / British / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 7 weeks ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of the American master Benjamin West was created in 1796. It depicts the destruction depicted in the Christian Apocalypse. It currently is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Benjamin West was born in 1738 Pennsylvania and was self-taught. He began painting at the age of eight and was patronized by Dr. William Smith from the time he was eighteen. He also began learning from the English painter John Wollaston at the same time. Four years later he was sent to Italy to study Titian and Raphael and in 1763 he was commissioned by George III to paint members of the royal family. West founded the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768 with Joshua Reynolds and he died in London in 1820.
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