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Jun 15 2011
The Battle of Texel
British / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 8 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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Jun 12 2011
View of the Forum of Rome, 1732
Academician / Greco-Roman / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Spanish - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “View of the Forum of Rome” of 1732 by Francesco Sabatini. This masterpiece is gouache on cardboard and signed in the lower right corner. It appears to be the very early work of Frncesco Sabatini who was born in Palermo, Sicily and studied architecture in Rome. In 1752 he participated in the construction of the Caserta Palace for the king of Naples and when he became King Charles III of Spain eight years later, Sabatini was called to Madrid. Royal patronage gained him entrance into the Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and appointment as Great Master of Royal Works. He designed and built many building during his long career which ended only in his death I 1792 in Madrid. This work is 47 cm wide and 34 cm high.
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Jun 9 2011
View of the Parthenon from the Propylea
British / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 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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Jun 7 2011
Tobias Fishing in the Presence of the Archangel Raphael
Impressionist / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Tobias Fishing in the Presence of the Archangel Raphael” of 1752 by Francesco Guardi. Francesco Guardi was one of the last of the Venetian school of painting and was forty years old when he produced this masterpiece. His most important works date from the years following this effort and his quick brushwork was to have an influence on the French Impressionists of the following century. He died in 1793, four years before the death of the Venetian Republic. This painting is in the Church of the Angel Raphael in Venice and measures 140 cm wide and 80 cm high.
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Jun 6 2011
Four parts of the world
Academician / French / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Les Quatre parties du monde” of 1760 by Jean-Jacques Bachelier. The French artist was thirty-six when this masterpiece was created. He had been a member of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture for eight years. Five years later he founded an art school in Paris. He died in 1806 in his natal city of Paris. This work is in the Royal Collection of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
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