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Jun 5 2011
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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Jun 4 2011
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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Jun 3 2011
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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Jun 2 2011
Perros y útiles de caza
Academician / Paintings (Reproductions) / Spanish - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Dogs and Supplies of the Hunt”, or “Dogs on a Leash” of 1775 by Francisco Goya. The painting was a study for a tapestry commissioned by Charles de Bourgon, the Prince of Asturias and heir to the Spanish kingdom. It was designed for a cornice in the Escorial. Goya was twenty-nine when he completed this work having begun his apprenticeship as a painter when he was fourteen. He moved to Madrid to study under Mengs but clashed with his teacher. His submissions to the Royal Academy of Fine Art in 1763 and 1766 were denied. He moved to Rome where he gained some success and returned to Zaragoza where he was commissioned to complete several church frescoes. This work is 174 cm wide and 112 cm high and is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
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Jun 1 2011
Election of Stanislaw II
German / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Election of Stanislaw II August at Wola in 1746″ by Bernardo Bellotto of 1776. This Venetian artist was fifty-two when he created this spanning panoramic vista of the field at Wola during the election of the king of Poland. He had worked in Rome and for Charles Emmaunel III of Savoy and in 1747 at the age of about twenty-five he moved to Dresden at the invitation of August III, king of Poland. The Austrian empress Maria Theresa invited him to work in Vienna in 1758 which he did and then moved on to work in Munich and again in Dresden. In 1764 he became court painter to Stanislaw II of Poland in Warsaw where he remained and died in 1780. This work is in the National Museum in Poznan, Poland.
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May 31 2011
Blind Man’s Bluff
Academician / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Blindekuhspiel” of 1776 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. This French artist was forty-four when he created this Late Rococo landscape depicting a game of blind man’s bluff. The vivid colors and veiled sensuality were precursors of later Romanticism. He won the Prix de Rome in 1752 and four years later arrived at the Eternal City at the age of twenty-four. He became influenced by the Dutch Masters and by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and returned to Paris in 1761 where he entered the Academy within four years. He became a great favorite of the members of the court of Louis XV but fled Paris at the outset of the French Revolution. He lived quietly in the south of France until near his death when he returned to Paris where he died in 1806. This work is 198 cm wide and 216 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.
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May 30 2011
The Destruction of the Turkish Fleet
Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Sea Scapes - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Die Zerstorung der turkischen Flotte in der Schlacht von Tschesme” of 1771 by Jakob Philipp Hackert. The Battle of Chesma occurred on July 5, 6 and 7, 1770 near the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. It was part of the Orlov Revolt in which Russian officers attempted to rally the Greeks of the Peloponnese to throw off Turkish oppression. In the Battle of Chesma, the Turkish fleet was destroyed and the Russians were able to control the Aegean for some years. This also sparked the rebellion against Turkish rule of non-Greek Christian peoples of the Balkans. This work is 220 cm wide and 162.5 cm high and is in the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg.
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May 29 2011
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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May 28 2011
The Shipwreck
Academician / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Shipwreck” of 1775 by Hendrik Kobell. This Dutch artist was twenty-four years old when this was produced having been born in Rotterdam. He had studied in Rotterdam and England but returned to the Netherlands in 1770 when he began to study in Amsterdam under Jacob de Vos and Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. He was soon elected to the Academy after which he settled in Rotterdam. His oils and watercolors were noted for their realism. He was quite successful and died in Rotterdam on August 3, 1799. This work is 134 cm wide and 92 cm high and is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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May 26 2011
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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