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Jul 9 2011
Victory, O Lord !
Academician / British / Millais / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 7 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Victory, O Lord!” by John Everett Millais of 1871. It is a depiction of Moses being supported by his brother Aaron and Hur during the battle of Rephidim against the Amalekites as recorded in Exodus 17. Millais was forty-two when he created this masterpiece and was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite School. This work dates from the period in which the artist grew bolder in his use of color and drama and marks a significant transition in his style. He was very influential among British artists and died in 1896. This masterpiece is 141.3 cm wide and 194.7 cm high and is in the Manchester Art Museum in Manchester, England.
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Jun 17 2011
Sir Isaac Newton
Academician / Baroque / British / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Sir Isaac Newton” of 1689 by Godfrey Kneller. The artist was forty-three when he painted Newton who was then aged forty-six. Kneller was the court portraitist for the British kings from Charles II to George I. Newton, of course, was the greatest scientist of his age being the founder of physics, discoverer of Gravity, the Three Laws of Motion, the co-inventor of differential and integral calculus, builder of one of the first reflecting telescopes,. In short he was one of the most influential persons to have ever lived.
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Jun 3 2011
Boy in Blue
Academician / British / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 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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Apr 10 2011
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.
Mar 13 2011
Le Pandemonium, 1841, John Martin
British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of John Martin’s “Le Pandemonium” of 1841. The artist created the masterpiece when he was fifty-two years old. He was already deeply influencing the French Romanticists such as Delacroix, Victor Hugo and Saint-Beuve. The work depicts a scene from Milton’s Paradise Lost representing the capital of Satan’s kingdom. This painting in the Louvre also retains its original frame designed by the artist, the only one of his works that does. The original painting is 72.8 inches wide and 48.4 inches high and is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Mar 11 2011
View of Saint Peter’s in Caen by William Fowler, II
British / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “View of Saint Peter’s Church” of 1841 by William Fowler the Younger. This English Victorian artist produced this masterpiece when sixteen years old. The precocious young artist was named after his father who was also an artist. He died in 1867. The church of St. Peter’s in Caen was built between 1250 and 1545. The Eastern Apse was built by Hector Sohier between 1518 and 1545. It is a Gothic masterpiece though the last additions show the transition to Renaissance.
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Mar 3 2011
Shipwreck of the Minotaur, J. M. William Turner, ca. 1810
British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Shipwreck of the Minotaur” by J. M. William Turner of about 1810. This British warship was sailing from Gothenburg to Britain when it was wrecked on the night of December 22, 1810. Over a hundred of her crew reached the Dutch shore and twenty others were rescued by a pilot vessel. Yet Dutch authorities refused to send help to the vessel which was being pounded to pieces. Between 370 and 570 souls were lost and the 130 survivors were taken to France as prisoners of war. Turner had been working on shipwreck paintings and this one was named to take advantage of the scandal among the British public over the failure of the Dutch to rescue hundreds of people who could have been saved. This masterpiece is in the Calouste Gulenkian Museum in Lisbon.
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Dec 27 2010
Reading from Homer, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885
Academician / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was created in 1885. It depicts a scene from ancient Rome when three listeners are intent in listening to a reading from the Blind Bard, the founder of their religion. This work is currently in a private collection.
Oct 11 2010
The Gods At Play by William Blake Richmond, ca. 1889
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of a work by William Blake Richmond who died in 1921 at the age of eighty-nine years. His career began in 1861 and he was well received having studied in England and in Italy. He was knighted in 1897. This work is a beautiful imaginative rendition of the gods of Olympus at play, but we have been unable to find the real name of the work or where it may now be displayed.
Sep 28 2010
Dante and Beatrice by John William Waterhouse, 1915
British / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “Dante and Beatrice” of 1915 by John William Waterhouse. This work reflects and captures a moment from the divine comedy when the author encounters his beloved Beatrice. This is an oil sketch from the last year in which the artist could work. In this year he became too ill with cancer to continue.
Waterhouse often re-created scenes from the world of myth as did many of his fellow Pre-Raphaelites. Waterhouse was born to English painters in Rome who returned to England when he was five years old. He entered the Royal Academy of Art school in 1871 when he was aged 21 and within three years he had a successful painting. For the next forty years Waterhouse maintained his success and continued painting until his last illness made production impossible in 1915. He died two years later. This masterpiece is presently in the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.
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