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Victory, O Lord !

Academician / British / Millais / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Victory, O Lord!” by John Everett Millais of 1871.  It is a depiction of Moses being supported by his brother Aaron and Hur during the battle of Rephidim against the Amalekites as recorded in Exodus 17.  Millais was forty-two when he created this masterpiece and was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite School.   This work dates from the period in which the artist grew bolder in his use of color and drama and marks a significant transition in his style.  He was very influential among British artists and died in 1896.  This masterpiece is 141.3 cm wide and 194.7 cm high and is in the Manchester Art Museum in Manchester, England.

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Sir Isaac Newton

Academician / Baroque / British / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Sir Isaac Newton” of 1689 by Godfrey Kneller.  The artist was forty-three when he painted Newton who was then aged forty-six.  Kneller was the court portraitist for the British kings from Charles II to George I.  Newton, of course, was the greatest scientist of his age being the founder of physics, discoverer of Gravity, the Three Laws of Motion, the co-inventor of differential and integral calculus, builder of one of the first reflecting telescopes,.  In short he was one of the most influential persons to have ever lived.

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The Battle of Texel

British / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Encounter between Cornelis Tromp on the Gouden Leeuw and Sir Edward Sragg on the Royal Prince during the Battle of Kijkduin” of 1707 by Willem van de Velde the Younger.  This battle occurred on August 21, 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War.  The painting was created when the artist was seventy-four years old having been born in Leiden to Willem van de Velde the Elder.  He moved to London in 1673 into the employ of Charles II.  Also patronized by the Duke of York, the future James II, Van de Velde the Younger died on April 6, 1707.   This work is 183 cm wide and 114 cm high and is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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View of the Parthenon from the Propylea

British / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “View of the Parthenon from the Propylea” of 1821 by Edward Dodwell.  This image appeared in Dodwell’s volume Views in Greece which was published in London in 1821, the year of the Greek War of Independence.  It shows the contemporary buildings which were on the Akropolis during the 375 year Turkish occupation of Athens.  The Irish-born artist was fifty-four when the volume was published and had been living and traveling in Italy and Greece since 1801.  He died in Rome on May 13, 1832.

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Horse Attacked by a Lion

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Horse Attacked by a Lion” of 1765 by George Stubbs.  The artist was born in Liverpool and worked for his father as a leather merchant until he was sixteen.  He was apprenticed to a painter  a year later in 1741 after his father’s death.  In the 1740′s he worked as a portraitist in the north of England and travelled to Italy in 1754.  He moved to London in 1759 and in 1766 published an illustrated book on The Anatomy of the Horse.  Commissions by the nobility enabled him to buy a comfortable home in a fashionable part of London where he lived for the rest of life which eneded in 1806 at the age of eighty-one.  This work is 97 cm wide and 66 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
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Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, king of Sparta

Academician / American / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, king of Sparta” of 1768 by Benjamin West.  This is gigantic canvas painting is over sixty feet wide and 45 feet high.  The American artist West displayed it at the second exhibition of the Royal Academy.  He had established himself as the leading London artist depicting scenes from Classical History after his studies in Italy.  This painting depicts a famous scene from Spartan history when Leonidas II returned from having been deposed by his son-in-law.  The pleadings of his daughter Chilonis saved the rebel’s life who was banished rather than executed.  This work is 1854 cm wide and 1384 cm high and is in the Tate Museum in London.

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Boy in Blue

Academician / British / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Boy in Blue” of 1770 by Thomas Gainsborough.  This is his most famous work and is regarded as a homage to Anthony van Dyke influenced by the Belgian artist’s portrait of Charles II as a boy.  The painting remained in private hands until 1921 when it was sold by the second duke of Westminster to the art dealer Joseph Duveen in 1921.  The painting was then sold to the American railway pioneer Henry Huntingdon amid public outcry in Britain.  Gainsborough was forty-three when he completed this masterpiece, a year after he began exhibiting works to the Royal Academy.  He gained a national reputation but ceased displaying at the academy in 1773.  He moved to London the next year and became favored by the court of George III.  He continued to be a favorite of the royal family until his death I n1780.  This work is 122 cm wide and 178 cm high and is in the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, California.

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Cascade in the Tuauru Valley, Tahiti

British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Cascade in the Tuauru Valley, Tahiti” of 1773 by William Hodges.  This painting was one of many which the artist completed while on the second voyage of James Cook from 1772 to 1775.  Hodges was born in London and embarked on the voyage when he was twenty-eight years old.  He had supported himself as a painter of theatrical scenes and was on salary by the Admiralty during and after the voyage so that he could complete his paintings.  His bold use of light and shadow anticipated the later Romantic movement.  His artistic career was ended when he displeased the Duke of York in 1795 and he died in Devonshire two years later at the age of fifty-three.   This work is 64.1 cm wide and 49.9 cm high and is at the National Maritime Museum in London.

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Watson and the Shark

American / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Watson and the Shark” of 1778 by John Singleton Copley.  The artist was forty years old when this was produced having been born probably in Boston, Massachusetts, of Irish parents.  His earliest work was a portrait executed in 1752.  By the age of seventeen he was fully engaged in portraiture.  In 1774 he left America due to increasing threats due to his Loyalist family connections.  After American Independence, Copley maintained good relations with friends in Massachusetts.  During the Napoleonic Wars his finances declined and the artist died in England in 1815.   This work is 229.7 cm wide and 182.1 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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La Roche Tarpéienne

British / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Tarpeian Rock” of 1780 by Francis Towne.  This is a scene from the late eighteenth century in Rome of the famous Tarpeian Rock from which the Roman hurled traitors from the earliest days of their history.  Francis Towne was forty-one years old when he created this watercolor masterpiece.  He was from Middlesex in England.  He supported himself with portraits and teaching in Devon and in 1777 during a tour of North Wales began focusing on watercolors.  He created this work during a stay in Rome which was followed by a month in Naples in 1781.  Returning to England, he moved to London where he died in 1816.  This work measures 18.58 inches wide by 12.6 inches high and is in the British Museum in London.

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