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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 14 2011
Guinea hen with chicks
Baroque / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of ” Perlhuhn Paar mit Küken neben Distel Blättern vor dunkler Waldlandschaft mit Steinen und Marmorvase” of 1723 by Abraham Bisschop. This masterpiece was created when the artist was fifty-three years old. Bisschop was a Dutch artist, the son of Cornelius, court painter in Copenhagen. He focused on paintings of birds, portraits and landscapes in the Italian manner. Most of his paintings were large canvases. He was in the painters’ guild of Middleburg in the Netherlands in 1715 and died there in 1731. This work is 70 cm wide and 90 cm high.
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Jun 13 2011
Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives
Academician / Baroque / German / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives” of 1730 by Sebastiano Ricci. This masterpiece was created when the artist was seventy-one years old. He was a Late Baroque artist of the Venetian school. He began as an apprentice at the age of twelve. He moved to Bologna after a scandal in Venice and began collecting commissions in 1682. He fled Bologna after another scandal and by 1692 was in Rome where he received a commission from the duke of Parma. He was back in Venice between 1698 and 1706 when he moved to Florence. He travelled to London and Paris for further commissions and returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man. He continued to work though his advanced age and influenced an entire school in Venice where he died in May, 1734. This work is 95 cm wide and 76 cm high and is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
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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 11 2011
Time Saving Truth from Falsehood
Academician / Baroque / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy” of 1737 by Francois Lemoyne. This allegorical Rococo masterpiece was produced when Lemoyne was fifty-nine years old and completed the day before his suicide. He began his studies when he was thirteen and won the Prix de Rome in 1711. Seven years later at the age of thirty he became a member of the Academie and became a professor in 1733. He led in the in the fashion of large allegorical paintings which disappeared upon his death on June 4, 1737. His suicide was probably prompted by insanity which overcame him after the death of his wife.
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Jun 10 2011
Achilles and the Centaur Chiron
Academician / Baroque / Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Achilles and the Centaur Chiron” of 1746 by Pompeo Batoni. According to Greek Mythology Achilles was trained in warfare by the wise centaur Chiron. This became a favorite subject during the Renaissance and continued into the Baroque. Batoni was thirty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in Lucca and apprentice in Rome from the age of nineteen. He was gained a patron in Gabrielli di Gubbio five years later and his fame spread. He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1741 and became an Austrian noble for his double painting of Joseph II and Leopold II. He died in Rome in 1787. This masterpiece is 127 cm wide and 159 cm high and is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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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 8 2011
Sebastian and the Women
Academician / Baroque / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Sebastian und die Frauen” of 1746 by Paul Troger. The artist was forty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in the Tyrol. He began his apprenticeship at the age of sixteen and painted his first fresco in 1722 when he was twenty-four. His patron sent him for four years to Italy where he perfected his style and returned to Austria in 1726. Two years later he moved to Vienna where his work became the bridge between Baroque and Rococo tastes. He died in 1762 and this work in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.
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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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