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Watson and the Shark

American / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 8 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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The Lock, John Constable, 1824

Academician / British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Lock” of 1824 by John Constable.  The artist was a native of Suffolk who died in 1837 at the age of sixty-one years.  He is one of the greatest English landscape painters but did not become recognized until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of fifty-two.  He struggled financially until then with his works selling better in France than in England.  This landscape features the lock and canal system of England which led to its industrial growth in the Nineteenth Century.  The painting is 120 cm wide and 142.2 cm high and is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

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Defense of Saragossa, Sir David Wilkie

British / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Defense of Saragossa” of 1828 by Sir David Wilkie.  The painting depicts the Spanish efforts to resist the second siege of Saragossa in Spain by the troops of Napoleon.  It highlights Agustina de Aragon, the Maid of Saragossa, who took a place at the guns during the three month siege in 1808.  The French were able to conquer the city but only at the cost of the total destruction of the site.  The resistance inspired Britain to commit significant forces to the Peninsular War.  Agustina joined Wellington’s army as an officer.  Sir David Wilkie was a Scots painter who created this work at the age of forty-three.  He died in 1841.  The original work is 141 cm by 94 cm and is in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, England.

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Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, William Turner

British / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, Venice” of 1833 by William Turner.  When the artist exhibited this masterpiece in 1840 he accompanied it with these lines based on Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,

“I stood upon a bridge, a palace
and a prison on each hand.”

Byron had named the bridge based on the fact that Venetian prisoners would last glimpse the open world upon this bridge before being led into prison cells.  The painting was given to the British nation in 1856.  This masterpiece is 81.6 cm wide and 51.1 cm high and is in the Tate, London.

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Lady Godiva by John Collier, 1898

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Lady Godiva” of 1898 by John Collier.  This English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite School painted this work when he was forty-eight years old.  He studied at the Munich Academy and was one of the most prominent portraitists of his age.  The Prince of Wales was his major patron and he died in 1934.  This painting of a major English mythological tale which depicts the naked wife of Earl Leofric of Mercia riding through Coventry to protest an unfair tax.  The legend dates from the Thirteenth Century and was popular in Victorian England as a morality tale.

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View of Amalfi, John Ruskin, 1844

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

This is a reproduction of “View of Amalfi” of 1844 by John Ruskin.  This artist is better known for his art criticism and social thinking and for the influence that he had on the Victorian Era in Britain. His support for Naturalism and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in art were instrumental in their acceptance.  His first publication was at the age of fifteen and nine years later he published the first volume of Modern Painters in 1843.  This became one of his most important works out of the over two hundred fifty works that were published.  He died in 1900 in Creteil, France.

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Val d’Aosta, John Brett, 1858

British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months 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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Bower Meadow by Dante Gabriel Rosetti

British / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc

A reproduction of a work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Bower Meadow” of 1872.  This Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece is haunting and seductive.  The models in the foreground are Maria Spartali Stillman on the left and Alexa Wilding on the right.  The painting has a surrealistic quality with dancing background figures contrasted with musical figures in the foreground at rest.  The painting is now displayed in the Manchester City Art Galleries in England.

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Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1795, Henry Fuseli

Academician / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Henry Fuseli’s “Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis” that was painted between 1794 and 1796.  It depicts a scene from the Odyssey in which Odysseus sailed between the monsters Scylla and Charybdis traditionally associated with the strait between Italy and Sicily.  Henry Fuseli was born in Zurich as Johann Heinrich Füssli in 1741 and arrived in England in 1765 where he began a career as a painter.  He favored the supernatural subjects and eventually taught in the Royal Academy.  He died in 1825 in London.

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