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Jun 14 2011
Guinea hen with chicks
Baroque / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of ” Perlhuhn Paar mit Küken neben Distel Blättern vor dunkler Waldlandschaft mit Steinen und Marmorvase” of 1723 by Abraham Bisschop. This masterpiece was created when the artist was fifty-three years old. Bisschop was a Dutch artist, the son of Cornelius, court painter in Copenhagen. He focused on paintings of birds, portraits and landscapes in the Italian manner. Most of his paintings were large canvases. He was in the painters’ guild of Middleburg in the Netherlands in 1715 and died there in 1731. This work is 70 cm wide and 90 cm high.
Reproduction for sale on Zazzle
Feb 8 2011
Independence Hall in Philadelphia by Ferdinand Richardt
Academician / American / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Independence Hall in Philadelphia” by Ferdinand Richardt, completed in 1863. Joachim Ferdiand Richardt was born in 1819 Denmark and studied at the Royal Danish Academy from the age of seventeen. He received an annual stipend from the crown for the five years ending in 1852 and three years later first visited the United States. He returned to Europe where he married and had good success with his paintings. He moved permanently to the United States In 1873, to California in 1875 and finally to Oakland in 1876 where he died on October 29, 1895. This is wonderful example of Richardt’s masterful portraits of buildings and natural wonders. This is one of two of his works that hang in the White House.
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