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Marketplace in an Italian Town

Dutch / German / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Marketplace in an Italian Town with itinerant toothpuller” by Johannes Lingelbach, 1651.  The artist was twenty-nine years old when he created this masterpiece.  He was a Dutch painter born in Frankfurt, Germany and moved with his father to Amsterdam when he was twelve.  In his mid twenties he traveled in Italy where this masterpiece was created.  He returned to Amsterdam in 1653 and married.  His work showed considerable influence from Caravaggio and its popularity led to a deep influence of chiaroscuro on later Dutch artists.  He died in Amsterdam in 1674.  This masterpiece is 86 cm wide and 68.5 cm high and is in the Rijksuseum, Amsterdam.

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Departure to the Hunt

Dutch / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Departure to the Hunt” of 1652 by Paulus Potter.  The artist was twenty-seven years old when he created this masterpiece.  He was a Dutch painter born in Enkhuizen who trained with his father in Amsterdam.  At twenty-four he moved to the Hague where he married and was introduced to the Dutch elite.  He became quite popular for his landscapes and paintings in natural settings.  These were lauded in the 19th century as precursors of Romanticism.  He died of tuberculosis before January 17, 1654 when he was buried.  This masterpiece is in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
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A Man in Armor

Dutch / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Rembrandt - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Man in Armor” of 1655 by Rembrandt van Rijn.  This later Rembrandt masterpiece is sub-titled “Alexander the Great” and was created when the artist was forty-nine.  He had been a prominent artist and member of the community in Amsterdam for twenty years.  Yet Rembrandt was approaching a financial crisis when this masterpiece was produced.  The painting shows Rembrandt’s wonderful use of light in his works with the gleam on the helmet also expressed over the heart on the breast-plate.  The red robe adds to the dramatic nature of the portrait.  This masterpiece is 137 cm wide and 104.5 cm high and is in the City Art Gallery and Museum of Glasgow, Scotland.

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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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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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Lecture on Anatomy by Andreas Bonn

Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Voordracht over de anatomie door Andreas Bonn voor het departement der Tekenkunde van Felix Meritis” of 1792 by Adriaan de Lelie.  This artist from Tilburg was self-taught and left for Antwerp in 1773 with his friend Cornelis van Spaendonck.  Aged eighteen upon this move, he painted historical works and portraits in Antwerp.  He moved to Amsterdam ten years later and became the darling of enlightened and progressive circles.  The attention his works garnered are a precursor to the popular art genre, the Conversation Piece.  In this ground-breaking painting, Lelie depicts the famous anatomy lectures of Dr. Andras Bonn in Amsterdam.  This masterpiece measures 100 cm wide and 81 cm high.  It is in the Amsterdam Museum in Amsterdam.
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The Dutch and English Fleets

Dutch / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Dutch and English fleets meet on the way to Boulogne in 1805″ by Martinus Schouman of 1806.  This traditional depiction of naval warfare was produced when Schouman was thirty-six years old.  He was a master of seascapes and the son of a sea captain.  He studied under his uncle Aert Schouman in the Hague and became one of the foremost sea painters of his day operating out of his studio at Dordrecht.  He moved to Breda in 1841 and died there eight years later.  This painting documents the meeting of the British and Dutch fleets during the later stages of Napoleon’s planning for his invasion of Britain.  This masterpiece is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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Self Portrait as a Young Man by Rembrandt

Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Rembrandt - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of one of the first self-portraits that Rembrandt executed.  He was aboiut twenty-two years old wshen he created the painting.  He placed the strong light behind the figure which results in a lack of detail in the face.  The young Rembrandt was also experimenting with an unusual treatment of his hair.  The original of this masterpiece iis in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and is 18.7 cm wide and 22.6 cm high.

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The Stone Bridge by Rembrandt van Rijn, ca. 1638

Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Rembrandt - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Stone Bridge” by Rembardnt van Rijn.  This is the only typically Dutch landscape executed by Rembrandt and it highlights dramatic contrasts between the sun shining on trees and a cottage in the center of the work with darkening areas in both the left foreground and the right town in the distance.  This is an early work of Rembrandt having been created when he was about thirty-two years old.  This masterpiece is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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Blaeu’s 1645 Map of Germany, Germania Veteris, typus

Dutch / Maps and charts / Renaissance - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of the famous map of Germany from Joan Blaeu, published in 1645.  This master cartographer followed his father Willem’s craft and published his first work with his father and brother in 1635 when he was 39 years old.  After his father’s death three years later, Joan and his brother took over their father’s work and Joan became the official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company.  He was elected to the Amsterdam Council in 1654 and in 1662 he reissued his atlas as the Atlas Maior.  He died in Amsterdam in 1673.

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