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Val d’Aosta, John Brett, 1858

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

This is a reproduction of “Val d’Aosta” of 1858 by John Brett.  This British artist is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement having been born in 1831 Reigate, south of London.  After studying under landscape artists, he entered the Royal Academy schools at the age of 22.  In his thirties he journeyed to Switzerland attempting to incorporate scientific principals in his paintings.  His reputation mounted and his patron John Ruskin sent him to the Val d’Aosta in northern Italy which produced this masterpiece.  Brett became quite financially comfortable and continued to produce scientifically precise paintings until his death in 1902.  He was also an astronomer and had been elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1871.  This masterpiece is in a private collection.
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Hypatia, 1885, Charles William Mitchell

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

This is a reproduction of Charles William Mitchell’s Hypatia of 1885.  Hypatia was the mathmatician, philosopher and astronomer librarian of the Alexandrian Library.  Hypatia was a Neoplatonist and followed the teachings of Plotinus.  She was killed during Christian rioting at Alexandria in 415, riots which also saw the destruction of the last classical library in Alexandria.

Charles William Mitchell was a Pre-Raphaelite English artist who was contemporary with John William Waterhouse.  He produced this painting, his most famous, when he was thirty-one years old.  He died in 1903.  This painting is in the Laing Art Gallery in the Tyne and Wear Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

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